The Periodic Table of Elements Scaled to Show The Elements’ Actual Abundance on Earth | 16s3d: Bestioles, opinions & pétitions | Scoop.it
When you learned about The Periodic Table of Elements in high school, it probably didn’t look like this. Above, we have a different way of visualizing the elements. Created by Professor William F. Sheehan at Santa Clara University in 1970, this chart takes the elements (usually shown like this) and scales them relative to their abundance on the Earth’s surface.