Using waste and recycling as a way in to the periodic table (open access)
Issue 374 | Page 47 | Published Sep 2019
Description
We find that the way we sort our rubbish for recycling has strong links with the way the elements in them are bonded – a sort of periodic table for compounds emerges.
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