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52 games with the Periodic Table
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Games with the Periodic
Table to Increase Public
Awareness of Science
Jordi Poater
Universitat de Barcelona & ICREA
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Whats is aromaticity?
“Widely applied for the characterization of specific
features of conjugated cyclic molecular systems, the
notion of aromaticity lacks a secure physical basis. Not
that this has stopped aromaticity from being a wonderful
source of creative activity in chemistry. We can think of
no other concept that has led to so much exciting
chemistry! Yet, although numerous indices of aromaticity
have been designed, based on energetic, geometrical
and magnetic criteria, no single property exists whose
measurement could be taken as a direct, unequivocal
measure of aromaticity.”R. Hoffmann, V.I. Minkin, B.K. Carpenter, Hyle, Int. J. Philos. Chem. 1997, 3, 3
º
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Why is the PT so relevant?
The Periodic Table is probably the most
compact and meaningful compilation of
knowledge that man has yet devised (*).
Astronomer Harlow Shapley, cited in the preface of “The Periodic, a
Very Short Introduction”, by Eric R. Scerri, Oxford Univ Press, 2011.
(*) PT is an icon very well known by the public, along with Rubik's Cube, indeed.
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• Any game with natural numbers can be adapted to element
symbols
• Goose Game
• Parcheese
• Dice
• Bingo
• Rubik's Cube
Others may be imitated:
- Ship game
And of course playing card games
• Periodic Table Playing Cards
52 games PT