Organising the metals and nonmetals

Foundations of Chemistry 22 (2):217-233 (2020)
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The periodic table can be simply demarcated into four classes of metal and four classes of nonmetal. Such a treatment has been obstructed by the traditional view of metalloids as in-between elements; understandable but needless boundary squabbles; and a group-by-group view of the reactive nonmetals. Setting aside these limiting notions reveals some interesting patterns and facilitates teaching and learning the periodic table.

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10.1007/s10698-020-09356-6

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Real Essentialism.David S. Oderberg - 2007 - New York: Routledge.
Isodiagonality in the periodic table.Geoff Rayner-Canham - 2011 - Foundations of Chemistry 13 (2):121-129.

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