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"Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!" (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago

We had to memorize that entire fucking thing in highschool...

[-] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 months ago

Luckily I had a teacher that thought it was bullshit we had to memorize the whole table and "forgot" to cover the wall-sized poster of the periodic table during the exam

[-] eronth@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah I'm vaguely remembering something similar. I have these faint whispers of a memory of my teacher forgetting (or probably, "forgetting") to cover something on the wall during a memorization test.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago

That's stupid, who the fuck needs to know about antimony

[-] moody@lemmings.world 16 points 2 months ago

Anybody named Mony.

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

No! Absolutely not! Are you trying to kill us all?!

[-] moody@lemmings.world 5 points 2 months ago

I'm trying, but you're not making it easy.

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Oh, dreadfully sorry. Shall I...just stick my neck out here? Or is this going to be a trampling? Let me know.

[-] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Most chem PhDs don't even know the whole thing lol. We had to memorize just the symbols in high school, but positions weren't required. In my grad-level inorg course, the first test was a blank table that we had to fill in, but even then the f-block and transactinides were not required.