periodic table
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Pluralperiodic tables
- 1A chart of all the chemical elements, set out so that similar elements are in the same column.
Our teacher hung a big periodic table on the classroom wall.
Find oxygen on the periodic table and write down its number.
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Origin
It is called "periodic" because elements with similar properties appear again at intervals in the table.