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miller_klein

@vicgrinberg As a professional chemist and amateur astronomer, I have always loved this version of the periodic table. I love the idea that only about 2% of the initial big-bang hydrogen has been converted into anything else, and to hold a piece of iron-nickel meteorite, and think:
a) it is the oldest thing I will ever touch
b) the generations of stars that lived and died to produce it!

#astronomy #chemistry #periodictable

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg

@miller_klein I have to admit I am always a bit afraid of what chemists think of astronomers given how we call everything that is not H or He "metal" :blobsweats:

miller_klein

@vicgrinberg It confuses us, but we forgive you. Not only a beautiful ‘book of the stuff the world is made out of’, but an explanation of how each chapter got written!

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