If you’ve ever had to take a Chemistry class, you’ve likely had to memorize some, if not all, of the periodic table’s 118 elements. If you were a more ancient student of chemistry, you would have probably memorized a smaller list, maybe with only 4 elements: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. We moderns could look down on previous generations, saying they wer…
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