7th Period Group #1: The Disappearing Spoon Book Discussion (Part 5: Question #2) by Michaela Spence

Question #2: Using text evidence, how did scientists contribute to the current understanding and use of the periodic table we use today?

spencejm — 2024-01-11 17:50:34 UTC

Noah Dagnan. Page 187

dagnannj — 2024-01-18 19:56:44 UTC

This page talks about how a scientist is working off Marie Curry's studies. Murie Curry learned that radioactive elements leaked gas like "Pure radioactivity". This helped scientists take radioactive elements further to understand how the radioactive elements work and their principles.

McKeand Jones pg. (181)

joneskm2 — 2024-01-18 20:05:53 UTC

"Unlike iron rust, this was not a chemical reaction. As scientists now know, this happens because tin atoms can rearrange themselves inside a solid two different ways, and when they get cold, they shift fro their strong "beta" form to the white, crumbly, powdery "alpha" form." This compares the reactions between tin when it gets cold, to iron when it starts to rust. This helps us understand the chemical reactions in BOTH elements.

Eli Lyas-Page 186

lyaser0 — 2024-01-18 20:07:43 UTC

On page 186, "Rutherford moved from New Zealand to the University of Cambridge in 1895, and he devoted himself to radioactivity" This shows how this scientist immediately decided to devote a lot of his time to making new scientific discoveries on radioactive elements. That is explaining how a scientist contributed to the current understanding and use of the periodic table we use today.

Tessa Spurling

spurlingtf — 2024-01-18 20:12:33 UTC

"Most countries have a standards bureau, whose job it is to measure everything" (Pg. 191). This quote answers the question because the people who contribute and commit their lives to standards bureau make sure that there are no stupid mistakes, or human error no one would catch. If we didn't have it, there could be some bad mistakes that could've really taken a toll on science and not everything would be as safe as it is. Something really bad could've happened if it weren't for standards bureau.

Julianna Mize pg.198

mizejm — 2024-01-18 20:14:51 UTC

On page 198 it says " How did scientists work this out about 1.7 billion years after it happend? With elements of corse! This shows how with the technology we have today scientists were able to figure out something that happend a very long time ago with things we know baout the current periodic table.

Sloan Morgan pg 189

spencejm — 2024-01-18 20:20:29 UTC

This page talks about Lord Kelvin and how he helped us understand bubble science/the bubbles of science. He helped just us normal people through writting a book called On Growth and Form, which then pretty much launched cell biology. So, without Lord Kelvin we wouldn't really understand bubble science or we wouldn't have known about bubble science for a longer time.

Caleb 185

lawrencec14 — 2024-01-18 20:20:52 UTC

On page 185 it talks about how Albert Einstein came across a new element by just messing around with quantum equations back in 1924. This quote showed me that it's not just scientific things can discover elements but math or anything there are so many elements in the world that we don't know about but can looking at or touching and we not know it all it takes is for a person to say yes i wanna try and find this element.

Kathryn Fulton Pg. 187

fultonkf — 2024-01-18 20:21:29 UTC

"Rutherford let nature do the work for him. He simply let a sample of radioactive metal decay in a closed container, then drew bubbles of the gas into a inverted flask." Soon after this lab test Rutherford found a new element Radon. Rutherford and his partner Soddy also soon realized that as elements decayed, they could jump around the periodic table. This is really cool because he did made all the discoveries with a chemical reaction and bubbles! Without him we might not have known about this element or that elements can jump around the periodic table.

Rawlings mgeni page 180-181

mgenirc — 2024-01-18 20:25:35 UTC

"Tin, which Scott used to seal the cans of fuel"

This was pretty important to me because after Scott died people tried to excuse Scott from the blame for the periodic table. Another thing is that the team he was in experimented in melting tin for sealing the cans the gas was in and i think this is important because he showed ways to use tin in some was people didn't think of back then.