The Periodic Table of Videos

August 25th, 2009 by Tom

Chemistry was the toughest of all subjects for me in high school, and I expect something like this would have helped immensely: a periodic table backed up by a punchy video explaining every element.

Here’s good ol’ boron:



You won’t master basic chemistry watching these videos, but they do a great job making each element memorable.

[via @leahjones, by way of Dave]

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