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Developing the periodic table The periodic table was developed by grouping elements with similar properties. This, together with a later arrangement by atomic weight, led to a repeating pattern of ...

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Scientists have found that our bodies need 28 different elements to function properly. These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods.

Today, 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang, stars have converted about 2 per cent of the universe’s hydrogen and helium into other elements ... guide to the periodic table “There ...