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Reflections on the Nature of the Periodic Table of the Elements: Implications in Chemical Education

2014

The periodic table of the elements (PTE) results essential to understand our nature and place in the whole of beings. The same happens with our food, drugs, materials, etc. A series of questions were asked to introduce PTE and provide answers. The ideas in PTE should be valued by the number of questions that they generate. The PTE was related to electron configurations. The emergence of elements (nucleosynthesis) in physics was explained. The PTE results essential to understand our nature and place in the whole of beings. The same happens with our food, drugs, materials, etc. Schwarz and Rich asked a series of questions (Qs) to introduce PTE and provided answers. The ideas on PTE should be …