The Periodic Table: Crash Course Chemistry #4
Hank gives us a tour of the most important table ever, including the life story of the obsessive man who championed it, Dmitri Mendeleev. The periodic table of elements is a concise, information-d...
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Hello, I'm Hank Green; welcome to Crash Course Chemistry. Today, we're talking about the most important table ever. Not the table where they signed the Declaration of Independence, nor any table of contents, nor this table right here, nor the stone table of Aslan, NAY! It is the periodic table of elements, a concise, information-dense catalog of all of the different sorts of atoms in the universe. Today I want to talk a little bit about the creation of this table, which is, to be clear, one of the crowning achievements of human thought. To start out, though, let's close our eyes and pretend. [Theme Music] Imagine you're in Siberia. And you're a thirteen-year-old boy. And your father, who was a professor but had gone blind, leav...
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Hello, I'm Hank Green; welcome to Crash Course Chemistry. Today, we're talking about the most important table ever. Not the table where they signed the Declaration of Independence, nor any table of contents, nor this table right here, nor the stone table of Aslan, NAY! It is the periodic table of elements, a concise, information-dense catalog of all of the different sorts of atoms in the universe. Today I want to talk a little bit about the creation of this table, which is, to be clear, one of the crowning achievements of human thought. To start out, though, let's close our eyes and pretend. [Theme Music] Imagine you're in Siberia. And you're a thirteen-year-old boy. And your father, who was a professor but had gone blind, leav...
