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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Typefaces, types of meat and even the Muppets have been ordered in its image？
Does "Typefaces, types of meat and even the Muppets have been ordered in its image" mean "font, specified kinds of flesh (of animals) and even some movies have been ordered (by customers) according to the image of the periodic table"?
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IF IMITATION is the sincerest form of flattery, the periodic table has many true admirers. Typefaces, types of meat and even the Muppets have been ordered in its image. For chemists, knowing an element's position in the periodic table, and the company it keeps, is still the most reliable indicator of its properties – and a precious guide in the search for new substances. "It rivals Darwin's Origin of Species in terms of the impact of bringing order out of chaos," says Peter Edwards of the University of Oxford.
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Rogue elements: What's wrong with the periodic table
- 14 July 2014 by Celeste Biever
IF IMITATION is the sincerest form of flattery, the periodic table has many true admirers. Typefaces, types of meat and even the Muppets have been ordered in its image. For chemists, knowing an element's position in the periodic table, and the company it keeps, is still the most reliable indicator of its properties – and a precious guide in the search for new substances. "It rivals Darwin's Origin of Species in terms of the impact of bringing order out of chaos," says Peter Edwards of the University of Oxford.
Top answer
No, that's "ordered" as in "put in sequence". I suppose "the Muppets" means the Muppet characters.
- No, that's "ordered" as in "put in sequence".
- I suppose "the Muppets" means the Muppet characters.
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No, that's "ordered" as in "put in sequence".
I suppose "the Muppets" means the Muppet characters.
I suppose "the Muppets" means the Muppet characters.
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NL888"types of meat" seems very odd to me.But that was the most logical one for me.
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One of my daughters has a t-shirt with a period table of DC characters and the other daughter has a t-shirt with a periodic table of Mine Craft elements. It's a "meme" to use the periodic table to arrange the "elements" of something other than actual chemical elements.
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Thank you.
But what is Mine Craft? Google search failed me with other languages than English.
But what is Mine Craft? Google search failed me with other languages than English.
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