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These are pure substances that cannot be broken down into simpler substances. We cannot see individual particles of an element. All we can observe are large collections of these particles. Each element nevertheless exhibits different properties (characteristics). These properties include colour, whether it is a gas or liquid or solid at room temperature, whether it is shiny or not shiny, the weight of a representative number of particles and the kinds of other elements with which this element can combine to form a new product.
The key to understanding why particular elements combine with some elements and not others, involves the existence of extremely tiny negative electrical charges (electrons) that whiz around the outer perimeter of each elementary particle. There are very particular rules which govern where these electrons can and cannot occur. Depending upon the interior make up of the elementary particle, there are different numbers of electrons which whiz around the exterior of the particle. No two elements possess the same total number of electrons. The electrons that they do possess however, are only able to occupy specific distances [energy levels] from the particle interior. These rules mean that there are only a few electrons in the outermost energy level. It is the number of electrons in the outer energy level that controls the kind of chemical reactions this element is capable of achieving.
Imagine that your family is visiting the mountains. You all want to take a gondola ride to the top of the mountain. The gondola seats eight people, but your family has only seven people. The gondola management persuades a person from another family to occupy the last seat in your gondola. So, two families are linked for a time since one person from group 2 is travelling with group 1. Or imagine that there are only five people in family 1 and 3 from family 2 are required to fill up the gondola. You can figure out all sorts of permutations and combinations. Family 1 has 10 people and has to send two along with family 2 in their cart. In like fashion, elementary particles donate electrons, or accept electrons, or share electrons in order to form new compounds with entirely different properties from the reacting elements.
There is, for example a corrosive (dangerous) green gas called chlorine which is able to combine with a soft shiny metal called sodium. If you put a small lump of sodium in water, this metal is almost explosively reactive. It fizzes around on the water’s surface until it has formed a very corrosive compound called sodium hydroxide. Obviously, sodium is dangerous and so is chlorine, but chlorine is a gas which makes it even more difficult to control. Together sodium and chlorine combine to form table salt, of which you no doubt consume plenty in your food every day. The compounds that result from the combination (reaction) of different elements with each other, are obviously very different from the elements themselves.
Each element is unique, exhibiting properties only found with that element. There are however groups of elements with similarities in characteristics although they are not identical. For example, some non-metal elements like fluorine, and oxygen, are happy to accept a negative charge (electron) from another element in an effort to become stable [not reacting further]. These elements are called electron acceptors. The result is a compound (new product). Alternatively, there are shiny metals like lithium, calcium and sodium that are happy to give away a negative charge (electron). These elements are called electron donors. In case you have never heard of electrons, electricity is a flow of electrons.
In the nineteenth century, scientists investigating chemical reactions and properties, wondered how they could make sense of the many elements that they had already discovered and were in process of discovering. Was there any rhyme or reason or logic evident in these various properties. In 2019, scientists the world over, celebrated the achievement of Russian Dmitri Mendeleev in making sense of the relationships of the various elements to each other.
Mendeleev, born in 1834 in a remote part of arctic Russia, was later educated in advanced science (chemistry) in the Russian capital and in Europe. Many of his fellow scientists at the time were looking for ways to understand why the various elements exhibited the properties that we see. Mendeleev was sure that there must be a logical reason for the various observed properties/characteristics of the elements. He set out to discover what the organizing principle might be. In order to do this, he assigned one data card to each element.
For each element he wrote down the information that he had such as appearance, relative weight (for the same number of particles) and how the element reacted chemically, etc. Then he tried rearranging the cards in various logical orders. For example, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine are all dangerous elements that react with metals. The lighter the element (fluorine), the more vigorously it reacts. Fluorine is a yellowish gas, very poisonous. Chlorine is a greenish gas that was used in chemical warfare in World War I. A lot of people died when they were exposed to chlorine gas. Bromine is a dark red liquid and iodine, the heaviest, is solid and much less reactive.
Once Mendeleev had placed the cards for all elements of similar properties in vertical rows from lightest to heaviest, he found that he could predict the characteristics of new elements based on where they might be placed in his chart. We now know that the relationships were based on the activities of electrons. That understanding came much later. However, Mendeleev was able to discover the reaction patterns without understanding why this was so.
Mendeleev shared his ideas in 1869 with the Russian Chemical Society. At first, few people were interested in his proposal, but within a few years, his predictions about other elements yet to be discovered, were proved correct. This demonstrated the value of his Periodic Table of the Elements. Scientists still consult the table today.
So, Mendeleev is famous for proposing a scientific organizing principle of enormous power. The fact that the characteristics of the elements follow particular rules, is interesting. Where did these logical patterns or rules come from? There are only two choices for answers: either chance brought this about, or God. As far as we have ever seen, chance never produces a highly organized system full of information. It is evident that our Creator God established the wonderful way elements interact to yield all the amazing materials and objects that we see in the Creation: in Space and on Earth, living and non-living. The characteristics of the elements, with their precise relationships, testify to the glory and wisdom of our God.
Book Reference: John Hudson Tiner. Exploring the World of Chemistry. Master Books. 142 pp.
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Level: Introductory
These are pure substances that cannot be broken down into simpler substances. We cannot see individual particles of an element. All we can observe are large collections of these particles. Each element nevertheless exhibits different properties (characteristics). These properties include colour, whether it is a gas or liquid or solid at room temperature, whether it is shiny or not shiny, the weight of a representative number of particles and the kinds of other elements with which this element can combine to form a new product.
The key to understanding why particular elements combine with some elements and not others, involves the existence of extremely tiny negative electrical charges (electrons) that whiz around the outer perimeter of each elementary particle. There are very particular rules which govern where these electrons can and cannot occur. Depending upon the interior make up of the elementary particle, there are different numbers of electrons which whiz around the exterior of the particle. No two elements possess the same total number of electrons. The electrons that they do possess however, are only able to occupy specific distances [energy levels] from the particle interior. These rules mean that there are only a few electrons in the outermost energy level. It is the number of electrons in the outer energy level that controls the kind of chemical reactions this element is capable of achieving.
Imagine that your family is visiting the mountains. You all want to take a gondola ride to the top of the mountain. The gondola seats eight people, but your family has only seven people. The gondola management persuades a person from another family to occupy the last seat in your gondola. So, two families are linked for a time since one person from group 2 is travelling with group 1. Or imagine that there are only five people in family 1 and 3 from family 2 are required to fill up the gondola. You can figure out all sorts of permutations and combinations. Family 1 has 10 people and has to send two along with family 2 in their cart. In like fashion, elementary particles donate electrons, or accept electrons, or share electrons in order to form new compounds with entirely different properties from the reacting elements.
There is, for example a corrosive (dangerous) green gas called chlorine which is able to combine with a soft shiny metal called sodium. If you put a small lump of sodium in water, this metal is almost explosively reactive. It fizzes around on the water’s surface until it has formed a very corrosive compound called sodium hydroxide. Obviously, sodium is dangerous and so is chlorine, but chlorine is a gas which makes it even more difficult to control. Together sodium and chlorine combine to form table salt, of which you no doubt consume plenty in your food every day. The compounds that result from the combination (reaction) of different elements with each other, are obviously very different from the elements themselves.
Each element is unique, exhibiting properties only found with that element. There are however groups of elements with similarities in characteristics although they are not identical. For example, some non-metal elements like fluorine, and oxygen, are happy to accept a negative charge (electron) from another element in an effort to become stable [not reacting further]. These elements are called electron acceptors. The result is a compound (new product). Alternatively, there are shiny metals like lithium, calcium and sodium that are happy to give away a negative charge (electron). These elements are called electron donors. In case you have never heard of electrons, electricity is a flow of electrons.
In the nineteenth century, scientists investigating chemical reactions and properties, wondered how they could make sense of the many elements that they had already discovered and were in process of discovering. Was there any rhyme or reason or logic evident in these various properties. In 2019, scientists the world over, celebrated the achievement of Russian Dmitri Mendeleev in making sense of the relationships of the various elements to each other.
Mendeleev, born in 1834 in a remote part of arctic Russia, was later educated in advanced science (chemistry) in the Russian capital and in Europe. Many of his fellow scientists at the time were looking for ways to understand why the various elements exhibited the properties that we see. Mendeleev was sure that there must be a logical reason for the various observed properties/characteristics of the elements. He set out to discover what the organizing principle might be. In order to do this, he assigned one data card to each element.
For each element he wrote down the information that he had such as appearance, relative weight (for the same number of particles) and how the element reacted chemically, etc. Then he tried rearranging the cards in various logical orders. For example, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine are all dangerous elements that react with metals. The lighter the element (fluorine), the more vigorously it reacts. Fluorine is a yellowish gas, very poisonous. Chlorine is a greenish gas that was used in chemical warfare in World War I. A lot of people died when they were exposed to chlorine gas. Bromine is a dark red liquid and iodine, the heaviest, is solid and much less reactive.
Once Mendeleev had placed the cards for all elements of similar properties in vertical rows from lightest to heaviest, he found that he could predict the characteristics of new elements based on where they might be placed in his chart. We now know that the relationships were based on the activities of electrons. That understanding came much later. However, Mendeleev was able to discover the reaction patterns without understanding why this was so.
Mendeleev shared his ideas in 1869 with the Russian Chemical Society. At first, few people were interested in his proposal, but within a few years, his predictions about other elements yet to be discovered, were proved correct. This demonstrated the value of his Periodic Table of the Elements. Scientists still consult the table today.
So, Mendeleev is famous for proposing a scientific organizing principle of enormous power. The fact that the characteristics of the elements follow particular rules, is interesting. Where did these logical patterns or rules come from? There are only two choices for answers: either chance brought this about, or God. As far as we have ever seen, chance never produces a highly organized system full of information. It is evident that our Creator God established the wonderful way elements interact to yield all the amazing materials and objects that we see in the Creation: in Space and on Earth, living and non-living. The characteristics of the elements, with their precise relationships, testify to the glory and wisdom of our God.
Book Reference: John Hudson Tiner. Exploring the World of Chemistry. Master Books. 142 pp.
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Level: Introductory
These are pure substances that cannot be broken down into simpler substances. We cannot see individual particles of an element. All we can observe are large collections of these particles. Each element nevertheless exhibits different properties (characteristics). These properties include colour, whether it is a gas or liquid or solid at room temperature, whether it is shiny or not shiny, the weight of a representative number of particles and the kinds of other elements with which this element can combine to form a new product.
The key to understanding why particular elements combine with some elements and not others, involves the existence of extremely tiny negative electrical charges (electrons) that whiz around the outer perimeter of each elementary particle. There are very particular rules which govern where these electrons can and cannot occur. Depending upon the interior make up of the elementary particle, there are different numbers of electrons which whiz around the exterior of the particle. No two elements possess the same total number of electrons. The electrons that they do possess however, are only able to occupy specific distances [energy levels] from the particle interior. These rules mean that there are only a few electrons in the outermost energy level. It is the number of electrons in the outer energy level that controls the kind of chemical reactions this element is capable of achieving.
Imagine that your family is visiting the mountains. You all want to take a gondola ride to the top of the mountain. The gondola seats eight people, but your family has only seven people. The gondola management persuades a person from another family to occupy the last seat in your gondola. So, two families are linked for a time since one person from group 2 is travelling with group 1. Or imagine that there are only five people in family 1 and 3 from family 2 are required to fill up the gondola. You can figure out all sorts of permutations and combinations. Family 1 has 10 people and has to send two along with family 2 in their cart. In like fashion, elementary particles donate electrons, or accept electrons, or share electrons in order to form new compounds with entirely different properties from the reacting elements.
There is, for example a corrosive (dangerous) green gas called chlorine which is able to combine with a soft shiny metal called sodium. If you put a small lump of sodium in water, this metal is almost explosively reactive. It fizzes around on the water’s surface until it has formed a very corrosive compound called sodium hydroxide. Obviously, sodium is dangerous and so is chlorine, but chlorine is a gas which makes it even more difficult to control. Together sodium and chlorine combine to form table salt, of which you no doubt consume plenty in your food every day. The compounds that result from the combination (reaction) of different elements with each other, are obviously very different from the elements themselves.
Each element is unique, exhibiting properties only found with that element. There are however groups of elements with similarities in characteristics although they are not identical. For example, some non-metal elements like fluorine, and oxygen, are happy to accept a negative charge (electron) from another element in an effort to become stable [not reacting further]. These elements are called electron acceptors. The result is a compound (new product). Alternatively, there are shiny metals like lithium, calcium and sodium that are happy to give away a negative charge (electron). These elements are called electron donors. In case you have never heard of electrons, electricity is a flow of electrons.
In the nineteenth century, scientists investigating chemical reactions and properties, wondered how they could make sense of the many elements that they had already discovered and were in process of discovering. Was there any rhyme or reason or logic evident in these various properties. In 2019, scientists the world over, celebrated the achievement of Russian Dmitri Mendeleev in making sense of the relationships of the various elements to each other.
Mendeleev, born in 1834 in a remote part of arctic Russia, was later educated in advanced science (chemistry) in the Russian capital and in Europe. Many of his fellow scientists at the time were looking for ways to understand why the various elements exhibited the properties that we see. Mendeleev was sure that there must be a logical reason for the various observed properties/characteristics of the elements. He set out to discover what the organizing principle might be. In order to do this, he assigned one data card to each element.
For each element he wrote down the information that he had such as appearance, relative weight (for the same number of particles) and how the element reacted chemically, etc. Then he tried rearranging the cards in various logical orders. For example, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine are all dangerous elements that react with metals. The lighter the element (fluorine), the more vigorously it reacts. Fluorine is a yellowish gas, very poisonous. Chlorine is a greenish gas that was used in chemical warfare in World War I. A lot of people died when they were exposed to chlorine gas. Bromine is a dark red liquid and iodine, the heaviest, is solid and much less reactive.
Once Mendeleev had placed the cards for all elements of similar properties in vertical rows from lightest to heaviest, he found that he could predict the characteristics of new elements based on where they might be placed in his chart. We now know that the relationships were based on the activities of electrons. That understanding came much later. However, Mendeleev was able to discover the reaction patterns without understanding why this was so.
Mendeleev shared his ideas in 1869 with the Russian Chemical Society. At first, few people were interested in his proposal, but within a few years, his predictions about other elements yet to be discovered, were proved correct. This demonstrated the value of his Periodic Table of the Elements. Scientists still consult the table today.
So, Mendeleev is famous for proposing a scientific organizing principle of enormous power. The fact that the characteristics of the elements follow particular rules, is interesting. Where did these logical patterns or rules come from? There are only two choices for answers: either chance brought this about, or God. As far as we have ever seen, chance never produces a highly organized system full of information. It is evident that our Creator God established the wonderful way elements interact to yield all the amazing materials and objects that we see in the Creation: in Space and on Earth, living and non-living. The characteristics of the elements, with their precise relationships, testify to the glory and wisdom of our God.
Book Reference: John Hudson Tiner. Exploring the World of Chemistry. Master Books. 142 pp.
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Level: Introductory
These are pure substances that cannot be broken down into simpler substances. We cannot see individual particles of an element. All we can observe are large collections of these particles. Each element nevertheless exhibits different properties (characteristics). These properties include colour, whether it is a gas or liquid or solid at room temperature, whether it is shiny or not shiny, the weight of a representative number of particles and the kinds of other elements with which this element can combine to form a new product.
The key to understanding why particular elements combine with some elements and not others, involves the existence of extremely tiny negative electrical charges (electrons) that whiz around the outer perimeter of each elementary particle. There are very particular rules which govern where these electrons can and cannot occur. Depending upon the interior make up of the elementary particle, there are different numbers of electrons which whiz around the exterior of the particle. No two elements possess the same total number of electrons. The electrons that they do possess however, are only able to occupy specific distances [energy levels] from the particle interior. These rules mean that there are only a few electrons in the outermost energy level. It is the number of electrons in the outer energy level that controls the kind of chemical reactions this element is capable of achieving.
Imagine that your family is visiting the mountains. You all want to take a gondola ride to the top of the mountain. The gondola seats eight people, but your family has only seven people. The gondola management persuades a person from another family to occupy the last seat in your gondola. So, two families are linked for a time since one person from group 2 is travelling with group 1. Or imagine that there are only five people in family 1 and 3 from family 2 are required to fill up the gondola. You can figure out all sorts of permutations and combinations. Family 1 has 10 people and has to send two along with family 2 in their cart. In like fashion, elementary particles donate electrons, or accept electrons, or share electrons in order to form new compounds with entirely different properties from the reacting elements.
There is, for example a corrosive (dangerous) green gas called chlorine which is able to combine with a soft shiny metal called sodium. If you put a small lump of sodium in water, this metal is almost explosively reactive. It fizzes around on the water’s surface until it has formed a very corrosive compound called sodium hydroxide. Obviously, sodium is dangerous and so is chlorine, but chlorine is a gas which makes it even more difficult to control. Together sodium and chlorine combine to form table salt, of which you no doubt consume plenty in your food every day. The compounds that result from the combination (reaction) of different elements with each other, are obviously very different from the elements themselves.
Each element is unique, exhibiting properties only found with that element. There are however groups of elements with similarities in characteristics although they are not identical. For example, some non-metal elements like fluorine, and oxygen, are happy to accept a negative charge (electron) from another element in an effort to become stable [not reacting further]. These elements are called electron acceptors. The result is a compound (new product). Alternatively, there are shiny metals like lithium, calcium and sodium that are happy to give away a negative charge (electron). These elements are called electron donors. In case you have never heard of electrons, electricity is a flow of electrons.
In the nineteenth century, scientists investigating chemical reactions and properties, wondered how they could make sense of the many elements that they had already discovered and were in process of discovering. Was there any rhyme or reason or logic evident in these various properties. In 2019, scientists the world over, celebrated the achievement of Russian Dmitri Mendeleev in making sense of the relationships of the various elements to each other.
Mendeleev, born in 1834 in a remote part of arctic Russia, was later educated in advanced science (chemistry) in the Russian capital and in Europe. Many of his fellow scientists at the time were looking for ways to understand why the various elements exhibited the properties that we see. Mendeleev was sure that there must be a logical reason for the various observed properties/characteristics of the elements. He set out to discover what the organizing principle might be. In order to do this, he assigned one data card to each element.
For each element he wrote down the information that he had such as appearance, relative weight (for the same number of particles) and how the element reacted chemically, etc. Then he tried rearranging the cards in various logical orders. For example, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine are all dangerous elements that react with metals. The lighter the element (fluorine), the more vigorously it reacts. Fluorine is a yellowish gas, very poisonous. Chlorine is a greenish gas that was used in chemical warfare in World War I. A lot of people died when they were exposed to chlorine gas. Bromine is a dark red liquid and iodine, the heaviest, is solid and much less reactive.
Once Mendeleev had placed the cards for all elements of similar properties in vertical rows from lightest to heaviest, he found that he could predict the characteristics of new elements based on where they might be placed in his chart. We now know that the relationships were based on the activities of electrons. That understanding came much later. However, Mendeleev was able to discover the reaction patterns without understanding why this was so.
Mendeleev shared his ideas in 1869 with the Russian Chemical Society. At first, few people were interested in his proposal, but within a few years, his predictions about other elements yet to be discovered, were proved correct. This demonstrated the value of his Periodic Table of the Elements. Scientists still consult the table today.
So, Mendeleev is famous for proposing a scientific organizing principle of enormous power. The fact that the characteristics of the elements follow particular rules, is interesting. Where did these logical patterns or rules come from? There are only two choices for answers: either chance brought this about, or God. As far as we have ever seen, chance never produces a highly organized system full of information. It is evident that our Creator God established the wonderful way elements interact to yield all the amazing materials and objects that we see in the Creation: in Space and on Earth, living and non-living. The characteristics of the elements, with their precise relationships, testify to the glory and wisdom of our God.
Book Reference: John Hudson Tiner. Exploring the World of Chemistry. Master Books. 142 pp.
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Level: Introductory
These are pure substances that cannot be broken down into simpler substances. We cannot see individual particles of an element. All we can observe are large collections of these particles. Each element nevertheless exhibits different properties (characteristics). These properties include colour, whether it is a gas or liquid or solid at room temperature, whether it is shiny or not shiny, the weight of a representative number of particles and the kinds of other elements with which this element can combine to form a new product.
The key to understanding why particular elements combine with some elements and not others, involves the existence of extremely tiny negative electrical charges (electrons) that whiz around the outer perimeter of each elementary particle. There are very particular rules which govern where these electrons can and cannot occur. Depending upon the interior make up of the elementary particle, there are different numbers of electrons which whiz around the exterior of the particle. No two elements possess the same total number of electrons. The electrons that they do possess however, are only able to occupy specific distances [energy levels] from the particle interior. These rules mean that there are only a few electrons in the outermost energy level. It is the number of electrons in the outer energy level that controls the kind of chemical reactions this element is capable of achieving.
Imagine that your family is visiting the mountains. You all want to take a gondola ride to the top of the mountain. The gondola seats eight people, but your family has only seven people. The gondola management persuades a person from another family to occupy the last seat in your gondola. So, two families are linked for a time since one person from group 2 is travelling with group 1. Or imagine that there are only five people in family 1 and 3 from family 2 are required to fill up the gondola. You can figure out all sorts of permutations and combinations. Family 1 has 10 people and has to send two along with family 2 in their cart. In like fashion, elementary particles donate electrons, or accept electrons, or share electrons in order to form new compounds with entirely different properties from the reacting elements.
There is, for example a corrosive (dangerous) green gas called chlorine which is able to combine with a soft shiny metal called sodium. If you put a small lump of sodium in water, this metal is almost explosively reactive. It fizzes around on the water’s surface until it has formed a very corrosive compound called sodium hydroxide. Obviously, sodium is dangerous and so is chlorine, but chlorine is a gas which makes it even more difficult to control. Together sodium and chlorine combine to form table salt, of which you no doubt consume plenty in your food every day. The compounds that result from the combination (reaction) of different elements with each other, are obviously very different from the elements themselves.
Each element is unique, exhibiting properties only found with that element. There are however groups of elements with similarities in characteristics although they are not identical. For example, some non-metal elements like fluorine, and oxygen, are happy to accept a negative charge (electron) from another element in an effort to become stable [not reacting further]. These elements are called electron acceptors. The result is a compound (new product). Alternatively, there are shiny metals like lithium, calcium and sodium that are happy to give away a negative charge (electron). These elements are called electron donors. In case you have never heard of electrons, electricity is a flow of electrons.
In the nineteenth century, scientists investigating chemical reactions and properties, wondered how they could make sense of the many elements that they had already discovered and were in process of discovering. Was there any rhyme or reason or logic evident in these various properties. In 2019, scientists the world over, celebrated the achievement of Russian Dmitri Mendeleev in making sense of the relationships of the various elements to each other.
Mendeleev, born in 1834 in a remote part of arctic Russia, was later educated in advanced science (chemistry) in the Russian capital and in Europe. Many of his fellow scientists at the time were looking for ways to understand why the various elements exhibited the properties that we see. Mendeleev was sure that there must be a logical reason for the various observed properties/characteristics of the elements. He set out to discover what the organizing principle might be. In order to do this, he assigned one data card to each element.
For each element he wrote down the information that he had such as appearance, relative weight (for the same number of particles) and how the element reacted chemically, etc. Then he tried rearranging the cards in various logical orders. For example, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine are all dangerous elements that react with metals. The lighter the element (fluorine), the more vigorously it reacts. Fluorine is a yellowish gas, very poisonous. Chlorine is a greenish gas that was used in chemical warfare in World War I. A lot of people died when they were exposed to chlorine gas. Bromine is a dark red liquid and iodine, the heaviest, is solid and much less reactive.
Once Mendeleev had placed the cards for all elements of similar properties in vertical rows from lightest to heaviest, he found that he could predict the characteristics of new elements based on where they might be placed in his chart. We now know that the relationships were based on the activities of electrons. That understanding came much later. However, Mendeleev was able to discover the reaction patterns without understanding why this was so.
Mendeleev shared his ideas in 1869 with the Russian Chemical Society. At first, few people were interested in his proposal, but within a few years, his predictions about other elements yet to be discovered, were proved correct. This demonstrated the value of his Periodic Table of the Elements. Scientists still consult the table today.
So, Mendeleev is famous for proposing a scientific organizing principle of enormous power. The fact that the characteristics of the elements follow particular rules, is interesting. Where did these logical patterns or rules come from? There are only two choices for answers: either chance brought this about, or God. As far as we have ever seen, chance never produces a highly organized system full of information. It is evident that our Creator God established the wonderful way elements interact to yield all the amazing materials and objects that we see in the Creation: in Space and on Earth, living and non-living. The characteristics of the elements, with their precise relationships, testify to the glory and wisdom of our God.
Book Reference: John Hudson Tiner. Exploring the World of Chemistry. Master Books. 142 pp.
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