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Archive: March 2019 (5 Posts)

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Icebox: Exploring States of Matter Using Historic Photographs

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This post is by Kellie Taylor, Ed.D., the 2018-2019 Library of Congress Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow and was originally posted on the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog. How does science affect our daily lives? Or as students might ask, “Why do I have to learn this?” In addition to making communications faster …

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Happy 150th Anniversary to the Periodic Table

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This post was written by Science Reference Specialist Nate Smith. This year marks the 150th anniversary of one of the most important breakthroughs in the field of chemistry: the Periodic Table of Elements.  While there have been over 700 distinct iterations of the table (Scerri, 20), the first tables that explicitly showed periodicity were created …