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الإنجليزية 15:04 Science & Tech

6 Times Scientists Were Wrong About the Periodic Table

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“Water. Earth. Fire. Air.” Aristotle may  not have had a poster of the periodic table

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on his bedroom wall growing up.

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But he sure did have an idea about  what everything on Earth was made of.

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That idea was very, very wrong, of course,

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even if it did help spawn a  beloved television series.

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But over the following millennia,

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scientists slowly worked things out.

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By the time Dmitri Mendeleev published his  original version of the periodic table,

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in 1869, there were 63  elements that scientists knew

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made all the matter we can  see, touch, and so forth.

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Part of that was thanks to  advances in scientific theory,

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like Dalton’s concept of the atom.

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Part of it was thanks to advances in  scientific methods and technology.

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But the path from 63 to the current  118 elements was not straightforward.

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In fact, there are many times scientists  thought they had discovered a new element,

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but didn’t.

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So many in fact, you could make  a SciShow List Show about it…

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[intro jingle]

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Here’s a lie that your teacher might  have told you when you were young:

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“Sunlight is made up of all  the colours of the rainbow.”

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And by “lie ”, I mean it’s so close to true

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almost no one is going to call that teacher out.

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Except for when it actually matters.

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Like right now.

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In the early 1800s,

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the German glassmaker Joseph von Fraunhofer

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split sunlight up into its constituent colors

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using a device he invented called a spectroscope.

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And he found 574 dark lines  in the otherwise full rainbow.

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In other words, a bunch of colors were missing.

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These lines turned out to be super important

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for chemistry, physics, astronomy, and optics.

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Fraunhofer’s discovery was,  and remains, a pretty big deal.

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He was the first to document  these spectral absorption lines,

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caused by atoms absorbing  specific amounts of energy

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from light that’s passing through.

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Because when you’re dealing with light,  energy corresponds to wavelength…

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that is, color.

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Then the 1860s, some other German scientists…

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including Robert Wilhelm  Bunsen of “bunsen burner” fame…

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found that absorption lines  had not-at-all-evil twins

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called spectral emission lines

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that show up when you split up  the light coming from an element

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when it’s burning.

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Both emission and absorption lines

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are the result of an atom’s electrons  jumping between energy levels.

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When it’s emission, the electron  is emitting that energy,

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so it’s dropping down some number of levels.

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When it’s absorption, it’s the opposite.

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The exact amount of energy,

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and therefore the exact color of the light,

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depends on several factors, including  how many electrons are involved,

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and which levels they’re jumping between.

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Both of these lines act  like chemical fingerprints,

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because each atom has a unique  set of lines that they produce.

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So element hunters started using spectroscopes

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to split light from all sorts of places

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to find unique new fingerprints,  and therefore elements.

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Remember that this is right around when Mendeleev

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is coming up with his periodic table.

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He’s arranged the known elements  according to atomic weight,

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but he realised that there are  repeating patterns of properties.

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When he mapped it all out,

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there were actually gaps where  unknown elements might be.

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