The Periodic Table at a Glance
Beckett, Mike (University of Wales, Bangor) / Platt, Andy (Staffordshire University)
Inorganic chemistry is a core part of the chemistry curricula, though it is often felt to be a huge range of disparate facts that have little underlying organization or reasoning. The periodic table was developed in the latter part of the 19th century, providing an organizing structure which began to explain the underlying principles of inorganic chemistry