periodic table of the elements

Cultural  

1. A chart of the chemical elements that displays them in rows horizontally in order of increasing atomic number and vertically according to similarity of the chemical properties of their atoms. The position of an element on the table thus gives useful information about the structure and chemical properties of the element. (See Dimitri Mendeleev.)

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Example Sentences

He published his now-famous version of the periodic table of the elements in 1869, the same year that Nature was launched.

From Nature

Hu was also a budding visual artist at the time, and a couple of years later, at the age of 16, she decided to combine those interests: she created what she calls a “tile” representing carbon, modeled after the standard entries in the periodic table of the elements—but with an artistic twist.

From Scientific American

Such has been the scientific and cultural impact of Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table of the elements that many people assume it is essentially complete.

From Nature

It may therefore come as something of a surprise that the periodic table of the elements, which is 150 years old in 2019, should have survived for so long.

From Scientific American

It's right up there on the periodic table of the elements - atomic number 15.

From BBC