Somewhere I read an article about how the chart would be even better if they hadn't been hung up on "noble" gases at the time -- it was about how bias can be present in the hard sciences, I think. Can't find it on Google, but the Wikipedia discussion page I ran across is interesting anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Periodic_table/archive_1
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Somewhere I read an article about how the chart would be even better if they hadn't been hung up on "noble" gases at the time -- it was about how bias can be present in the hard sciences, I think. Can't find it on Google, but the Wikipedia discussion page I ran across is interesting anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Periodic_table/archive_1