/ Xeni Jardin / 11:14 am Mon Nov 22, 2010

Periodic Table of Elements, Revised (Boing Boing Flickr Pool)

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Periodic Table of the Elements (Revised), from the website spellingmistakescostlives.com, contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by Darren Cullen.

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  1. What I like about it is that it, unlike so many other similar parodies, is in fact at least somewhat *periodic.* (Fire, smoke, sand, gravel, stone, rocks…) Fun trying to figure out the logic in other columns. Many of them escape me.

  3. Two elements “Gr”? So close to each other?

    I suppose they quantum tunnel or something, so you have a constant mixture of the two?

    Gravel and Gravy – explains a lot about some cooking I’ve experienced.

  4. While I am glad that Old Bread and MSG got their due, I believe Bacon (Ba) was sorely underserved. Then again, since this chart has a decidedly British flavor, perhaps I should say “streaky bacon” (Sb) instead?

  5. For a brief moment there I thought this was a Minecraft periodic table.

    Now I’m mourning the absence of said hypothetical minecraft periodic table :(

    1. A Minecraft table would be like the real table in that new elements are being discovered/created — like Slow Sand in the recent update.

  6. boduelmike is onto something. Searching for other matching abbreviations, I find the following:
    Stains & Stones (St)
    Plaque & Paint (P)
    Fire & Flour (F)
    MSG, Mayonnaise & Metal (M)

    Is it any coincidence that this information has surfaced shortly after the return of the McRib? The inclusion of element #48 (Meat) must be the punchline to the joke.

    1. Looks like Li was repated too (Light and Lino).

      Being a vege I would have appreciated the appearance of Qu and Tvp..

  9. 77 elements? Looks like they ran out of ideas and gave up.

    I mean, I’ll excuse missing out the misch-mash of lanthanides and actinides, but leaving the bottom of the noble column out?

  10. Sigh. The “d” block elements get short-changed. Only 7 columns instead of 10. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride, for the transition metals.

    Also, isn’t it funny that amidst all the physical items on this table, there should be included Sin (#52) and Divorce (#70)

    1. That was a big day indeed. The resulting fission prompted an outpouring of F3A2, some blindingly incandescent Li, and directly led to the discovery of the precipitate Hm.

      Montreux was never the same…

  13. Divorce! That´s a more dangerous element than uranium or awesomium!
    Or at least harmfull to your wallet…

  14. I’m so happy this got on, thanks Xeni!

    And cheers for pointing out the matching abbreviations, (& missing the spelling mistakes), although I’m fucked if I’m going back & changing them now. They were a result of very much staring at the same thing for hours, repeatedly trying to wedge elements closer together to form some kind of group while maintaining the weight order. Much harder than I thought it would be.

    My biggest problem with this was that there’s far too many absurd liquids and not enough funny heavy materials. Any further suggestions welcome. I’m on twitter: @darren_cullen

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