Interesting Facts about Periodic Table

Nikitha Yerram^*
*Correspondence: Nikitha Yerram, Department of Biochemistry, St. Pious X Degree and PG College for Women College, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Email:

Brief Report

When Dmitrii Mendeleev built his periodic chart 150 years ago, no one understood what was inside an atom. We now know that an element's proton number and electron configuration impact its position on the periodic table, as well as its chemical characteristics. At a glance, you can see the components that make up nature's full repertory of chemical compounds, as well as their relationships. The elements, on the other hand, are individuals with their own unique town scientific peculiarities and intricate discovery stories.

Bananas abound in plenty. Potassium is a mineral that may be found in a variety of foods. Bananas are high in potassium-40, a radioactive form of potassium. In a single banana, potassium-40 generates a positron, the antimatter equivalent of the electron, around a dozen times every day, as well as an electron 13 times per second.

Actinium, Lutetium, Lawrencium, and Lanthanum are not accepted by anybody. Not everyone believes that lutetium and lawrencium belong at the top. The Royal Society of Chemistry places lanthanum and actinium in these top boxes, prioritising outer electron configurations and placing lutetium and lawrencium at the end of the f-block.

Last but not least, Henri Becquerel, a French physicist, accidentally discovered radioactivity in 1896 when he placed uranium salts on photographic plates, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. The only element in the table that occurs naturally in significant amounts is uranium; the rest must be synthesised in a lab.

The unique feature Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity explains the colour gold. Because of how electron energy levels vary owing to relativity, the metal absorbs blue light, giving the reflected light a yellow tint. Mercury is the rescuer of camping. With 1,300 doses of Rush's Thunderbolts, a mercurybased laxative, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set off for the Pacific Ocean. Mercury discovered in the earth in Lolo, Mont., led researchers to one of the explorers' campsites over two centuries later.

Prediction's Influence Mendeleev included vacant gaps in his first periodic chart to better match up the known elements. Gallium, element 31, was used to fill his first void in 1875. Gallium, the hero of a popular science trick, is solid at ambient temperature but liquid at 29.7 degrees Celsius. It may be used to stir hot tea or converted into a spoon that melts in your palm.