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Why the Periodic Table of Elements Is More Important Than Ever
Mendeleev’s 150-year-old periodic table has become the menu for a world hungry for material benefits.
11 Sep 2019, 12:53 AM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- The inventor Buckminster Fuller once described technological progress as “ephemeralization.” Sunbeams and breezes are replacing coal and oil as energy sources, brands are more important than buildings to corporations, and fiat money has supplanted gold and silver. So it seems reasonable to conclude that the periodic table of elements—that wonky taxonomy of physical stuff such as copper, iron, mercury, an...
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