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  • ️Francl, Michelle
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Nature Chemistry volume 1, pages 97–98 (2009)Cite this article

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There are many different versions of the periodic table, but one among them reigns supreme. Michelle Francl ponders on why chemists put elements in boxes.

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  • 05 May 2009

    In Fig. 1 of the version of this Thesis originally published, the element directly to the left of Bk was mistakenly written as Th, whereas it should have been Tb. This has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions, along with a typing error in 'Transition'.

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  1. Michelle Francl is in the Department of Chemistry at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010–2899, USA. mfrancl@brynmawr.edu,

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Francl, M. Table manners. Nature Chem 1, 97–98 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.183

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