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periodic table
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    The periodic table arranges elements according to their physical properties and to what else?†  (source)
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    The periodic table of elements, Meg!†  (source)
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    If only the walls had been decorated with maps of the world or a periodic table, they could have made fruitful use of the time—by imagining they were Columbus crossing the Atlantic or an alchemist in ancient Alexandria.†  (source)
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    Once the roads are clear, Violet and I creep very, very carefully down them to see the Painted Rainbow Bridge, the Periodic Table Display, the Seven Pillars, and the lynching and burial site of the Reno brothers, America's first train robbers.†  (source)
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    I recite the Periodic Table of Elements like a prayer; I take my examinations as Holy Communion, and the pass of the first semester was a sacrament.†  (source)
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    She'd been a scientist as well as a magician, and had thought nothing of reading us Newton's laws or the periodic table as bedtime stories.†  (source)
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    Molecules do not interest her, she doesn't seem able to grasp the Periodic Table.†  (source)
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    In chemistry, she wasn't there for our quiz on the periodic table.†  (source)
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    We're starting to run the periodic table here.†  (source)
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    He is comforted by its orderliness, by the beach-blanketsized periodic table above his head against the back wall and the gentle glow of the bluish screen.†  (source)
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    I gave my name and told how my father taught math at the community college and how my mother had once taught high school history, American history, but now was a housewife; I said it all as quickly as I could, and when I sat back in my desk I would have sworn that Merle Hucks had heard it all, that he was looking out the door right up until the moment the teacher of his homeroom walked over and closed it, leaving only a chart of the periodic table, taped to the door, for me to see.†  (source)
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    I was downstairs, and thinking that I had to get the baby down for a nap soon, but it's been so hard because she's been switching it up so much, so no matter what I do she gets overtired.... I tuned out and began mentally reviewing the periodic table, which usually kept me occupied during these soliloquies.†  (source)
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    He took a deep breath, running through the periodic table in his mind—silver cadmium indium tin—hut he could not seem to still himself.†  (source)
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