{"id":116655,"date":"2020-12-04T16:23:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T00:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/periodic-table-of-the-elements-turns-150"},"modified":"2020-12-04T16:23:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T00:23:40","slug":"periodic-table-of-the-elements-turns-150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/periodic-table-of-the-elements-turns-150","title":{"rendered":"Periodic Table Of The Elements Turns 150"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/periodic-table-of-the-elements-turns-150.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe you\u2019ve felt a certain chemistry with 2019 but don\u2019t know why? Maybe it\u2019s because this year marks the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table of the Elements. It\u2019s considered the founding document of modern chemistry, one you may have studied in school.<\/p>\n<p>UW-Madison professor of chemistry Bassam Shakhashiri knows both the history of the table, and its modern relevance. He says the table came about through a collaboration of a few scientists but that Dmitri Mendeleev properly gets much of the credit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDimitri Mendeleev, the Russian chemist, he proposed \u2014 sometimes people say he discovered \u2014 the pattern of similar behavior [of certain elements] and arranged them,\u201d Shakhashiri explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you\u2019ve felt a certain chemistry with 2019 but don\u2019t know why? Maybe it\u2019s because this year marks the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table of the Elements. It\u2019s considered the founding document of modern chemistry, one you may have studied in school. UW-Madison professor of chemistry Bassam Shakhashiri knows both the history of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}