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The periodic table is a fundamental piece of modern chemistry, yet it has gone through many revisions from the years when alchemy was turning into chemistry to today. In 1829, a german chemist by the name of Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner grouped the known elements into triads. One example of the Döbereiner triads is lithium, sodium and potassium. He grouped these elements by their similarities. 34 years later, in 1863, John Newlands, an english chemist, divided the 56 elements that were known at the time into 11 groups. In 1869, Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev, a russian chemist, organized the elements by how many protons in an element's atom. Lothar Meyer, a german chemist, and John Alexander Reina Newlands, a english chemist, both started to independently organize elements by their amount of protons. Not only did Meldeleev beat them to it, but he also predicted the existence of new elements. Meldeleev left holes in his table for where he thought new elements would go, and predicted the ...

What are elements? Elements are the individual atoms that make up everything that is matter in our universe. They are substances that cannot be broken down into further atoms. Contrary to alchemists views on the world, there are 118 discovered elements, not four elements. These four elements were fire, water, earth, and air. To debunk these claims, you can just use simple science. Water is composed of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom (H 2 O). The Earth’s crust is primarily made up of silicon dioxide (SiO 2 ) and magnesium oxide (MgO). The crust also has smaller amounts of FeO, Al 2 O 3 , CaO, Na 2 O, Fe 2 O 3 , TiO 2 , Cr 2 O 3 , MnO 2 and other, smaller percentages of compounds. Air is made primarily out of nitrogen and oxygen, along with smaller percentages of other gasses. Fire is usually started with phosphorus, and uses oxygen as an oxidizer to keep it burning. The substance the fire is burning is made out of elements (the fuel can be any number of things). Fire is a che...

Being multilingual make someone a world majority, but what exact percentage is multilingual? According to dana.org, a survey taken in 2006 says that 54% of respondents in Europe claimed they are multilingual. In 2001, the Associated Press stated that 66% of children in the world were raised multilingual. America is largely a monolingual country (english being the only language most people speak), in 2006 it was established that about one fifth (20%) of Americans older then five claimed to be multilingual. A multilingual sign reading 'entrance' in English, German, Spanish and French/ Un letrero multilingüe que dice ‘entrada’ en español, ingles, francés y alemán. - Credit/Credito: Britannica ImageQuest . https://quest.eb.com/failedlogin?target=%2F. Accessed 9 Aug. 2019. Mayorías y minoridades Ser multilingüe convertirse alguien a un mayoridad del mundo, pero qué es el exacto porcentaje de multilingües? Según a dana.org, una encuesta tomada en 2006 dice que 54% de s...

Being multilingual has many benefits in both the brain’s structure and in communication. Multilingual people have been shown to have better school performance, stronger logic/problem solving skills and a higher self esteem when going through life. They usually are more creative with their words and communication comes more naturally. Being multilingual also helps with cognitive decline that happens due to old age. If someone learns two or more languages, especially when they’re a child, it’s easier for them to learn and remember another language, no matter their age. When someone is multilingual, they have more freedom to explore the world and be independent. This is especially valuable in the connected world of today. One language even helps improve another, because multilinguals start to see connections between the languages, which help them grow their languages. Some people don’t just become multilingual because they want to, however. People become multilingual because they have mov...

The types of multilingualism are:  Individual Social Institutional Folk Elective  Ambilingual  Symmetric Asymmetric Individual multilingualism is where one specific individual knows two or more languages. Social multilingualism is where one community (ex. a town or a city) knows two or more languages. Each individual does not need to know all the languages or the community, but the community as a whole needs to speak at least two languages. Institutional multilingualism is when a company (or institution) offers their services in two or more languages. Again, each individual that work in the company does not need to know two or more languages. Folk multilingualism is when an individual uses two or more languages in their everyday life as a necessity. For example, at work you speak english, but you speak spanish with your grandparents because they don’t know english. Elective multilingualism is when an individual learns other languages b...