Until now, these elements had temporary names and symbols on the periodic table as their existence was ... a thin layer of bismuth with zinc ions travelling at about 10% the speed of light.” ...

The ability to name all of the elements on the periodic table from actinium to zinc is an impressive feat ... just as important as memorizing their symbols, check out the chart above.

Phosphorus, for instance, went from a glowing, albeit stinky, symbol of scientific ingenuity to an ingredient in white-hot bombs, capable of burning entire cities. Like the periodic table itself ...

For example, alkali metals have “floaty, flirty hair” while the zinc ... in the periodic table, but each is given its own page with all of the above and other details such as symbol, melting ...

Dmitri Mendeleev put the 63 of these known at the time into order and published his first version of what we now recognise as the periodic table in 1869 ... yttrium (Y), zinc (Zn), indium ...