The periodic table โ its formalization,
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Hinne Hettema; Theo A. F. Kuipers
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Article
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1988
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Springer
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English
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I tried to explain.., that... Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were laboriously learning to unravel, was poetry, loftier and more solemn than all the poetry we had swallowed down in liceo; and come to think of it, it even rhymed!" (Primo Levi, The Periodic Table, p. 41)