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Old 03-26-2016, 06:54 AM   #1
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The periodic table bothers me

So the first four elements of the periodic table are Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, and Beryllium.

Hydro- - water
Helio- - sun (fire)
Lith- - stone (earth)
Beryllium - ??????? (pale, used to be "sweet.")

Whoever did these naming conventions missed out on a cool nod to the ancient, classical ideas of the elements, which already correlate to states of matter.

earth - solid
water - liquid
air - gas
fire - plasma

Obviously it's too late to change it NOW, but it really irritates me that only 3 elements are represented, and one imperfectly.
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Old 03-26-2016, 07:10 AM   #2
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So you are 100% missing the point of the periodic table if you think this is supposed to be a nod to classical elements.
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Old 03-26-2016, 07:11 AM   #3
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Also those elements were named waaaaay before the concept of a periodic table.
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>mfw you think there was only four classical elements
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Old 03-26-2016, 08:13 AM   #7
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So you are 100% missing the point of the periodic table if you think this is supposed to be a nod to classical elements.
But a nod exists, though incomplete!

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but how did she get the stones in there though
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solid shitpost, I give it 5/7
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Old 03-26-2016, 12:40 PM   #10
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>mfw you think there was only four classical elements
Depends on the mythology tbh. The four Greek combinations of Heat/Moisture (Fire/Water/Earth/Air) are most commonly referred to as the four "classical" elements (including on Wikipedia), but they also had Aether. However, iirc Aether was proposed at a later date to the other four.

On the flip side the far east has five elements in classic thinking, somewhere has 3 (earth, sea, sky), and iirc India has a pretty decent number of them.


But, as for the original post, pretty sure it's a coincidence considering the table is ordered by weight tbh.
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Aether was introduced later because people realized that if you kept the original form everything in the universe would crash into the earth. Hence the heavenly element of Aether.
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In my freshman and junior years in high school, we were asked to memorize the periodic table. Not all of it, but mostly their charges and their atomic numbers.

Four years later I have completely forgotten everything.
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