periodic tablein a sentence
- i can't sleep tonight. my head is full of thoughts that won't turn off. lines from my monologues. elements of the periodic table that i'm supposed to be memorizing. theorems i'm supposed to be understanding. olivia. auggie. miranda's words keep coming back: the universe was not kind to auggie pullman. i'm thinking about that a lot and everything it means. she's right about that. the universe was not kind to auggie pullman. what did that little kid ever do to deserve his sentence? what…† (source)
- 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)
- The periodic table of elements, Meg!† (source)
- To the left was an oil painting of the Virgin Mary, and beside that was a laminated periodic table of elements.† (source)
- 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)
- Which would, of course, lead to him pulling me inside the car and kissing me, which always made me somehow forget about studying the dates for the Italian Renaissance, or the periodic table, or Macbeth, entirely.† (source)
- In general, I adhere to the notion that things belong in the class to which they have been assigned —which leads us to the periodic table.† (source)
- Our advanced curriculum put us into the periodic table during the first week.† (source)
- 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)
- 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)
- In chemistry, she wasn't there for our quiz on the periodic table.† (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)
- Molecules do not interest her, she doesn't seem able to grasp the Periodic Table.† (source)
- 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)
- Bet you don't even know your periodic table, do you?† (source)
- 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)
- "We're starting to run the periodic table here.† (source)
- The periodic table arranges elements according to their physical properties and to what else?† (source)
- The periodic table and Jane Eyre and even the location of the Brown Pelican.† (source)
- Mr. Ferris told us how we were going to have lab partners and do experiments and create vacuums and aspirin tablets and investigate the concept of mass versus weight and how we'd have to measure with the metric system and we didn't need to fuss about it because it was for our own good and how the first thing we needed to become familiar with was the periodic table starting with H for …. does anyone know?† (source)
- I tuned out and began mentally reviewing the periodic table, which usually kept me occupied during these soliloquies.† (source)
- The removal of the low volatiles, the higher portions of the periodic table in general, will permit contraction of the high melting, generally " denser, materials.† (source)
- He opened his eyes and made himself go through the periodic table—hydrogen, helium, lithium—so the knot in his stomach would not twist into tears.† (source)
- Mr. Taylor even sets up competitions among the top students, like a recent after-school contest to see who could most swiftly write every element in the periodic table from memory.† (source)
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