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File:Periodic table discovery periods.png

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Description
English: Periodic Table, main "discovery periods"
Date 2004
Source http://old.iupac.org/reports/periodic_table/index.html
Author IUPAC

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  • Before 1800 (38 elements): discoveries during and before the age of enlightenment.
  • 1800-1849 (+22 elements): science and industrial revolutions.
  • 1850-1899 (+23 elements): the age of classifying elements recived the impulse of the spectrum analysis. Boisbaudran, Bunsen, Crookes, Kirchhoff, and others "hunting wikipedia:emission line signatures".
  • 1900-1949 (+13 elements): impulse with the wikipedia:old quantum theory and wikipedia:quantum mechanics.
  • 1950-present (+22 elements): "post atomic bomb" issues for atomic numbers 97 and above (colliders, bombardment techniques).

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