{"id":13304,"date":"2005-07-21T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/21\/chemical-galaxy\/"},"modified":"2005-07-21T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T23:08:00","slug":"chemical-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/21\/chemical-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/a\/a3\/ChemicalGalaxy_Stewart_2004.jpg\" title=\"slightly larger version\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chemical Galaxy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/chemicalgalaxy.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dmitri_Mendeleev\" target=\"_blank\">Dmitri Mendeleev<\/a>&rsquo;s model of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Periodic_table\" target=\"_blank\">Periodic Table Of Elements<\/a> has not changed significantly since the late 18th century, despite his own recognition that it &ldquo;did not fully represent the overall pattern because it broke up the sequence. He thought the ideal would be a cylindrical helix, but that needs three dimensions.&rdquo;  The <i>Slate<\/i> article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2122919?nav=wp\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Is it time to revamp the periodic table?<\/i><\/a> reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chemicalgalaxy.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford ecologist Philip Stewart&rsquo;s attempt to rearrange the Periodic Table<\/a>, &ldquo;using a starry pathway to link the elements and to express the astronomical reach of chemistry.&rdquo;  Pretty neat&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/science\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/images\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">images<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-112194525479708429?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dmitri Mendeleev&rsquo;s model of the Periodic Table Of Elements has not changed significantly since the late 18th century, despite his own recognition that it &ldquo;did not fully represent the overall pattern because it broke up the sequence. He thought the ideal would be a cylindrical helix, but that needs three dimensions.&rdquo; The Slate article Is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/21\/chemical-galaxy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chemical Galaxy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}