How to Use periodic table in a Sentence

periodic table

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Definition of periodic tablenext
  • The name sprang from the CEO's passion for the periodic table, and in 2014 the brand launched with five brands.
    — Roxanne Robinson, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Lithium is the lightest metal in the periodic table, and it’s used in all kinds of things.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Apr. 2022
  • His brain catalogued the names of tomato plants, seeds of all kinds, and the symbols of the periodic table.
    — Beth Thames, AL.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Wothers finds many such twists in the stories hidden behind the squares of the periodic table.
    — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2019
  • There's a giant periodic table for kids to look at and learn fun facts about the elements.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2018
  • Nowadays, consumers vape, eat and smoke cannabis, which is much stronger and comes in so many strains that someone mimicked the periodic table to keep track of them all.
    — Brad Branan, sacbee, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Nowadays, consumers vape, eat and smoke cannabis, which is much stronger and comes in so many strains that someone mimicked the periodic table to keep track of them all.
    — Brad Branan, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The cosmic history of the elements of the periodic table extends from a few minutes after the big bang to the present.
    — Sanjana Curtis, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
  • So what would this periodic table look like in the physical world?
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Nothing about the day has anything to do with the periodic table or the Pythagorean theorem.
    — Catherine Rentz, baltimoresun.com, 18 May 2018
  • The group announced that event has revealed the origin of some of the heaviest elements on the periodic table.
    — Valentina Zarya, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2017
  • This year’s questions were as follows: What will be the 119th element on the periodic table?
    — Jared Beasley, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
  • But the best example of what the museum is all about is a creative periodic table.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Electrons belong to the kingdom of fermions, and this is a key reason why the periodic table exists.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Feb. 2017
  • Lithium—the lightest solid element on the periodic table—tends to be found in two main forms.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The periodic table of elements theme is cool and spice blends like cowboy crust and tandoori glory will keep him busy knocking out new recipes in the kitchen, in style no less.
    — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Each group gets a code name after an element on the periodic table.
    — Elizabeth Dwoskin, The Seattle Times, 9 Oct. 2018
  • There was little to distinguish the room as a biology classroom — just a poster of the periodic table and a pile of dusty textbooks.
    — Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Then, as her first-period science class discussed the periodic table, she was called to the office.
    — Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The tree of life became for biology what the periodic table was for chemistry—both a foundation and an emblem for the field.
    — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • One weakness is that DM21 trained on molecules from the first three rows of the periodic table, where data is more plentiful.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022
  • There was a nod to the periodic table of elements on seventh grade teacher Blythe Hanley's door.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 15 May 2018
  • The 1860s, when the periodic table was conceived, were an exciting time for science.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2019
  • Plants also have a whole host of other elements from the periodic table in much smaller amounts.
    — Akshat Rathi, Quartz, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The problem, Principe says, is that the alchemists did not yet know that lead and gold were different atomic elements—the periodic table was still hundreds of years away.
    — John Matson, Scientific American, 31 Jan. 2014
  • But people respected the ability to rattle off the names of all the state capitals, or to recite the periodic table.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Both metals are even part of Agnico’s name, which comes from the periodic table symbols for silver (Ag), nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co).
    — Danielle Bochove, Bloomberg.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Some scientists have taken to creating periodic tables just to keep track of all of them.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The exodus of Martinez and Bogaerts, and a distant third in Betts, disrupted the Sox’ periodic table.
    — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Hydrogen, the lightest element on the periodic table and typically a gas, is pinched inside the planet until its electrons detach from the atoms and swarm freely.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024

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