{"id":4800,"date":"2016-04-29T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2016-04-27T15:56:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T22:56:15","slug":"periodic-table-103-bulletin-board-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2016\/04\/periodic-table-103-bulletin-board-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Periodic Table 103, Bulletin Board 0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late one night several seniors entered the student lounge intent upon some long-unfinished business: to replace the seldom used bulletin boards with a hand-painted Periodic Table of the Elements.<\/p>\n

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L to R: Erin McConnell ’16, Sam Underwood ’16, Catherine Neshyba ’16, Jazz Weisman ’16, Jonathan Perkins ’16, Makoto Kelp ’16, Nick Till ’16<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Lounge Table contains elements 1-103 and provides students working in the lounge with each element’s atomic\u00a0symbol, name, atomic # and mass, physical state (red = gas, blue = liquid, gray = solid) and stability (radioactive elements are, with one exception, appropriately gray).<\/p>\n

The painters, all seniors, signed the wall next to the Table, and also acknowledged their debt to\u00a0two Reed chemists from years gone by: Joe Weisman ’65<\/strong>, who came through with critical funds for the project, and Marsh Cronyn ’40<\/strong> [chemistry 1952-89]\u00a0whose 2003 paper, “The Proper Place for Hydrogen in the Periodic Table” (J. Chem. Ed<\/em>.,\u00a0DOI<\/strong>\u00a010.1021\/ed080p947<\/a>) inspired the placement\u00a0of “H” at two locations: the traditional location over Li, and Cronyn’s preferred location over C<\/a>. Although the entire Table was hand-painted, the artists first created 103 laser-cut stencils, one for each element, so that they could guarantee consistent size and easy rectangulation.<\/p>\n

Note to\u00a0future artists-in-chemistry:<\/strong> Should you have an art project up your sleeve, we have the wall space (stairwells, 1st & 2nd floors especially) and we would very much love to hear your ideas\u00a0before<\/em> you paint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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