The Single Helix
Chemical Element System Model The natural atoms can only be arranged with all element relationships perfectly correct in a model by spiralling every element across one row - in a single helix. Flat periodic tables currently employ organized element data in the more convenient 2D tabular format necessary for easier printing, study and work of Chemistry. The differences between 2D periodic tables and the three-dimensional system model photographed to illustrate this principle in the views below have been annotated underneath. . . . . |
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The Hydrogen box has been
stretched and wrapped to
maintain atomic number
sequence with Helium,
uniting the first period,
atop the 8 period Main Group
element tower at the left.
Instead of being at the edges of periodic tables, in the Alexander Arrangement of Elements the ends and beginnings of the shells/periods are together - greatly improving trends teaching. |
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Hydrogen's unique extended
databox of this model makes
explicit the concept that
Period 1 is quite different from
the periods on the Main Group
(S- & P-blocks) below.
The one databox deep downslant feature of the AAE's P-block elements is what allows both ends of sequential shells/periods to connect, enablng numerically continuous and contiguous elements - a factor that is explicit in the Periodic Law, but can't be fully complied with in 2D periodic tables. |
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Instead of Main Group blocks
being pushed apart by the
transition metals, common in
periodic tables, the other block
loops being pinched where they
join between Groups 2 & 3
avoid that distortion (center).
Feeling and seeing the natural beauty of science, which are expressed in AAE models - either as a great periodic table or a model of the reality of the atoms/elements systematized according to the Periodic Law - provides greater understanding and appreciation of Science. |
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The elements' helix
producing downslant
in the AAE, only in the
P-block, might be on any
part of the Main Group
elements in order to qualify
as an accurate depiction
(below) of the
chemical element system:
A model with all sequences of atomic numbers and element groups in continuous and contiguous arrangement, complying fully with the Periodic Law. < BACK |