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I really love the Isotope Table. I seem to remember having a chemistry teacher that mentioned something about the table being wonky or secretive. Total hearsay.
by tdy721 10y ago
I really love the Isotope Table. I seem to remember having a chemistry teacher that mentioned something about the table being wonky or secretive. Total hearsay.
I like the periodic table because I could verify it. Isotopes? Not so much...
- tdy721 10y agoI just don't trust it when it comes to transuranic elements, I think that's what I was trying to say here. Everyone talks about the 'island of stability' but I just can't find the evidence. Meanwhile there's Americium in my house! (smoke detectors)
- jmiserez 10y agoI don't think there's anything wonky about that table, it's just often not in the curriculum in high school, and teachers don't want to "confuse" students with material outside of the curriculum. But for me it greatly simplified understanding isotopes and radioactive decay. And why would you think you couldn't verify it? All of the isotopes in the table were observed in a lab somewhere.
- darkfuji 10y ago"it's just often not in the curriculum in high school" I'm pretty sure that most high school science students have at least seen it before though.
- ci5er 10y agoThe Isotope Table? I'm old and rural, but I didn't come across it in high school until I (an atypical geek) went looking for it specifically.