[r-t] Periodic table and chemical elements methods

[Philip Earis]

I'm currently at a Chemistry conference and this has got me
thinking...

Surprise major methods have been named after all (I think) the ~110
chemical elements.  I think most or all were devised by Tony Cox.
Whilst a number of these element methods are quiet neat (eg
Tellurium, a &3-56.4-56-23-4-5-4-5), I'm very puzzled as to why the
methods don't fit into a periodic table "plan", complete with
associated trends, etc. This seems to me that it would be (or would
have been) a much more elegant and preferable approach.

For example, you could have methods in the same periodic table group
(vertical column in the table) all having the same overwork grid, whilst
methods in the same period (horizontal row) all sharing an underwork grid.
This would be nicely analagous to trends in atomic structure, etc in the
real periodic table.

Moreover, the groups could be neatly arranged, so that group 2
contained just mx methods (ie 2-pivot), group 3 contained just b group
methods (3-pivot) etc.

A quick example of how this could be started is shown below (I'm not
sure if this will display as intended). Methods in the first group have
the Uxbridge overwork, methods in the second period have the Bristol
underwork (modulo halflead change) etc. I haven't added the transition
elements.  Some of the methods in the table are already rung, but if
you are completely fixated with new methods the over- and under- works can
be chosen to achieve this.

I guess there are some similarities here to the Colin Wyld 24-spliced
composition (methods at http://www.cantabgold.net/users/pje24/wyld24.pdf).
However, whilst those methods are a bit "samey", that didn't be
the case with the kind of periodic table below.

Of course, the real ringing "periodic table" is with
treble-dodging minor grids (see http://www.cantabgold.net/users/pje24/minor_grids.pdf).
Just like with the periodic table, this gives a complete list of
possibilities, rather than a user-defined subsection.

 

 

 



    
    
        
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