Have you had enough of the periodic table yet?

By Neil Withers2019-03-25T14:25:00

An image showing the 1975 Franklin Hyde periodic table

Source: Adapted from an image by Jeremy Sachs, 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0

There are enough ways to organise the elements to suit everyone’s taste

Spirals, loops, racetracks, 3D whirligigs and ever-expanding tables – arranging elements can be done in a dizzying variety of ways, but the standard 18-column chart is most people’s favourite