Periodic Table Table

I dig this Periodic Table Table that appeared on MAKE. One commenter there says he thinks it's from the Wake Forest University campus in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Great idea for a... science park. (Thanks, Lindsay Tiemeyer!)

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Marshall

A little higher and it would make one lovely backyard bar.
- stegodon
  
  of course, you would have to drink from beakers
RedShirt77

That is a nice periodic bench.
- dculberson
  
  A periodic bench seems like what you would use to sit at an occasional table.
wackyvorlon

Oooh! A bench made of lanthanides! Or are they the actinides? I can’t remember….
wackyvorlon

@ #12:

The problem is, all elements have radioactive isotopes:)
JJR1971

They should put lights under the radioactive elements so they glow.
Anonymous

Yes- that’s definitely the periodic table from Wake Forest! It’s right outside of the chemistry building (appropriately).
nanuq

Do they expand the bench to make room for more trans-uranic elements? It stops at 103.
- mdh
  
  Those elements go on the trans-uranic BBQ.
- Lobster
  
  No, the trans-uranic elements go on the periodic toilet of elements.
t3knomanser

It’s a nice table, but I couldn’t see myself using it every day. It’s more of a periodic table.

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I less than three mermaids

I think I would feel odd sitting on Plutonium. It didn’t work out so well last time I tried it.
- mdh
  
  better to have it on the bench than on the table where someone might accidentally put a salad bowl on it.
octopod

#elements ~ # keys, so would make a nice keyboard mod for a touch typing chemist.