Introduction -- The periodic system -- Quantitative relationships among the elements and the origins of the periodic table -- Discoverers of the periodic system -- Mendeleev -- Prediction and accommodation : the acceptance of Mendeleev's periodic system -- The nucleus and the periodic table : radioactivity, atomic number, and isotopy -- The electron and chemical periodicity -- Electronic explanations of the periodic system developed by chemists -- Quantum mechanics and the periodic table -- Astrophysics and nucleosynthesis -- The seven last infra-uranium elements to be discovered -- Synthetic elements -- Forms of the periodic table -- More chemistry.
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