A few of the articles from this week's issue of Chemical and Engineering News:
- Cover: the new drugs of 2018 (by Lisa Jarvis)
- "Chemistry preprints pick up steam" (by Tien Nguyen)
- This story about polyester made from coal in China is pretty fascinating stuff (article by Jean-François Tremblay)
- Jumping crystals? Man, that's cool. (article by Mitch Jacoby)
- Congratulations to the 2019 ACS National Award winners (article by Linda Wang)
- Some d00d yapping about "how to say 'no'" to volunteer opportunities and the like.
Did the letter bother anyone else as much as it did me? I thought the Periodic Table was primarily classifying elements on chemical behavior (after atomic number of course) and not on electron configuration. He doesn't behave like an alkaline earth metal - it behaves like a noble gas - and so a table that classifies it as an alkaline earth (above Be) and not as a noble gas (above Ne) seems misleading.
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