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"Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!" (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (3 children)

We had to memorize that entire fucking thing in highschool...

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Luckily I had a teacher that thought it was bullshit we had to memorize the whole table and "forgot" to cover the wall-sized poster of the periodic table during the exam

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah I'm vaguely remembering something similar. I have these faint whispers of a memory of my teacher forgetting (or probably, "forgetting") to cover something on the wall during a memorization test.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's stupid, who the fuck needs to know about antimony

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Anybody named Mony.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No! Absolutely not! Are you trying to kill us all?!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm trying, but you're not making it easy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oh, dreadfully sorry. Shall I...just stick my neck out here? Or is this going to be a trampling? Let me know.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Most chem PhDs don't even know the whole thing lol. We had to memorize just the symbols in high school, but positions weren't required. In my grad-level inorg course, the first test was a blank table that we had to fill in, but even then the f-block and transactinides were not required.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

It worked so well I managed to retain that knowledge for almost a full week after we were tested on it lol it's all gone now