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Organising the metals and nonmetals: An update

24 January 2024, Version 1
Working Paper
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Abstract

This paper updates my 2020 article, “Organising the metals and nonmetals” in which I advocated for parsing the periodic table into four kinds of metals and four of nonmetals. This framework is retained and updated, and augmented with some additional chemistry-related and philosophical observations.

Keywords

Classification of elements
Descriptive chemistry
Electronegativity
Introductory chemistry
Periodic trends
Periodic table

Supplementary materials

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Supplement to Organising the metals and nonmetals: An update
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An exploration of the shared properties of the unclassified nonmetals (H, C, N, O, P, S, Se)
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DOI

10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-m8brp
D O I: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-m8brp [opens in a new tab]

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