Periodic Table Comic Book

The Periodic Table is a table the idea of elements
in which chemical elements took a huge step in 1669
are arranged in order of
increasing atomic number. It when Hennig Brand
provides information about discovered a new
how elements relate to one
another in one easy-to-use element: Phosphorous
reference. We know a lot

about it but... How it was
discovered?

Alexandre Emile JOHN Newlands also noticed that there
were similarities between elements with
Beguyer de
atomic weights that differed by seven. IN
Chancourtois was 1865, HE PUBLISHED THE Law of Octaves. his
a French geologist table was not accepted by other scientists.
that devised an early
form of the periodic

table, which he
called the telluric

helix. He WAS the
first to arrange the
chemical elements in

order of atomic
weights.

Julius Lothar Meyer did a table The scientist who brought
with just 28 elements organized by it all together was

their valency. in 1868 he did a more Dimitri Mendeleev,
developed table that listed the who discovered the

elements in order of atomic weight. periodic table in February

Unfortunately, his work wasn’t of 1869 by arranging
published until 1870. chemical elements by

atomic mass. He predicted
the discovery of other
elements, and left

spaces open in his
periodic table for them.

After Mendeleev's publishing, future
scientists contributed to adding the elements

in their proper places. Sir William Ramsay
added in the noble gases, and Henry Mosley

changed the order around of Mendeleev's
table to be organized by atomic number.

Fariha Jasat

Dr. Hennig Brand He ”created it”
wanted to create by distilling
the philosopher´ some salts

stone, a stone produced from
that will turn any the evaporation

base metal into of his own
gold or silver. urine.

This new substance Krafft gave the phosphorus´
even glowed in the recipe to Robert Boyle, by just
dark! What he didn´t
know is that he had telling him it was derived from:
just created a new "somewhat that belonged to the

element: phosphorus! body of man“.

Brand sold his
recipe to Johann

Daniel Krafft,

who toured with
it through
Europe.

This gave Boyle a valuable Robert Boyle was the first to use phosphorus to ignite
sulfur-tipped wooden splints, forerunners of our
clue, so he, too, managed to modern matches, in 1680.
make phosphorus. He improved
the reaction by adding sand to
it, but still maintaining urine as

the base material.

Although emeralds and Later that year, Louis-
beryl were known to Nicholas Vauquelin, a
French chemist,
ancient civilizations, discovered that an
they were first unknown element was
present in emeralds
recognized as the same and beryl.

mineral by AbbE HaUy in
1798.

In February 1798 Others preferred the name
Vauquelin announced his beryllium, based on the
discovery at the French gemstone, and this is now
Academy and named the the official name.

element glaucinium Attempts to isolate the new
because its compounds element finally succeeded in 1828

tasted sweet when two chemists, Friedrich
Wolhler of Germany and A. Bussy of

France, independently produced
beryllium by reducing beryllium

chloride with potassium in a
platinum crucible.

Uniquely strong and light, today beryllium is
used to make cell phones, missiles and
aircrafts. But, watch out! airborne beryllium
has been known to be highly toxic so be careful

Emma Urrunaga

9000 B.C. Naturally
Middle East occurring
copper was
used by the

oldest
civilizations

by heating
and

modeling it
as liked.

3500 B.C. – 1000 B.C Bronze Age

These old civilizations
discovered that when
alloying tin with copper

you could create a
stronger metal: bronze!

Ancient to Modern Day

Civilizations such as the
Greeks and Romans

continued using copper
for varied uses such as in

currency and
construction.

During the 17 and 18 century, Today, copper is used for
electrical wiring, roofing and
countries such as Sweden and
Germany produced Europe´s plumbing and industrial
machinery!
copper and the United States a
third to half the world´s Eidrian Lian Pérez

copper.