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When researchers measured the heart rate, muscle tension and skin conductance of people before, during and after yawning, they did detect some changes in skin conductance following yawning, indicating a slight increase in physiological activity. Just as painted designs on Greek pots may seem today to be purely decorative, whereas in fact they were carefully and precisely worked out so that at the time, their meaning was clear, so it is with Chinese pots.Īnother flaw of the tiredness theory is that yawning does not raise alertness or physiological activity, as the theory would predict. However, more recent data imply that at least some parts of the planet did in fact experience long periods in the past during which liquid water existed on the surface. Mathematical models of ecosystems likewise suggest that diversity does not guarantee ecosystem stability-just the opposite, in fact.
Hills and mountains are often regarded as the epitome of permanence, successfully resisting theĭestructive forces of nature, but in fact they tend to be relatively short-lived in geological terms. We now know that atomic number (the number of protons in the nucleus), not atomic mass number (the number of protons and neutrons), determines chemical behavior. The isotopes of a given element have the same chemical properties but slightly different physical properties. All the isotopes of a given element have the same number of protons, but differ in their number of neutrons, and hence in their atomic mass. Such anomalies are due to the relative abundance of the "isotopes" or varieties of each element. For example, tellurium comes before iodine in the periodic table, even though its atomic mass is slightly greater. Because there is no space in the periodic table between these two elements, Mendeleyev suggested that the atomic mass of indium be changed to a completely different value, where it would fill an empty space between cadmium and tin. In fact, subsequent work has shown that in a periodic table, elements should not be ordered strictly by atomic mass. Indium, for example, had previously been assigned an atomic mass between those of arsenic and selenium. Mendeleyev was bolder than Meyer and even assumed that if a measured atomic mass put an element in the wrong place in the table, the atomic mass was wrong. Yet both chemists were sufficiently farsighted to leave gaps where their analyses of periodic physical and chemical properties indicated that new elements should be located.
When the German chemist Lothar Meyer and (independently) the Russian Dmitry Mendeleyev first introduced the periodic table in 1869-70, one-third of the naturally occurring chemical elements had not yet been discovered. TPO 16-2 Development of the Periodic Table
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