Comment on Noble gases
passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoLike not memorize the table but memorize the atomic numbers and valence electrons? Just memorize the alkali earth metals or the halogens? I don’t see how you wouldn’t be forced to memorize the table in some way
theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Its gonna be a complicated concept so please hold my hands! You learn how to read it (we were taught in primary school) and you look at it when you need info off it?
Like… I am studying bioengineering (bachelor, there is immeasurable amount of chem and the lack of knowing the atomic number of plutonium have yet to cost me my balls!
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Wait till you get a real job!!/s
passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah but I’m willing to bet not knowing which column or group silicon is would have been an issue, but if you say it doesn’t matter I trust your experience