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ReviewFrontiers in chemistry2020

Understanding Periodic and Non-periodic Chemistry in Periodic Tables.

Changsu Cao, René E Vernon, W H Eugen Schwarz, Jun Li

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Review in Frontiers in chemistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. CuACS materials Au · 2025
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  3. Polyvalent s-block elements: A missing link challenges the periodic law of chemistry for the heavy elements.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Changsu CaoDepartment of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
René E VernonCharles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia.
W H Eugen SchwarzDepartment of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Jun LiDepartment of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The chemical elements are the "conserved principles" or "kernels" of chemistry that are retained when substances are altered. Comprehensive overviews of the chemistry of the elements and their compounds are needed in chemical science. To this end, a graphical display of the chemical properties of the elements, in the form of a Periodic Table, is the helpful tool. Such tables have been designed with the aim of either classifying real chemical substances or emphasizing formal and aesthetic concepts. Simplified, artistic, or economic tables are relevant to educational and cultural fields, while practicing chemists profit more from "chemical tables of chemical elements." Such tables should incorporate four aspects:

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chemical elementschemical propertieselectron configurationsorbital energiesorbital radiiperiodic tablesrelativistic effectssuperheavy elements

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PMID33490030
PMCPMC7818537

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