At 662 square metres, a Perth university has created what it believes to be the world's largest periodic table of the elements.
A Perth university has decorated one wall of a new science building with what it believes is the world's largest periodic table of the elements.The periodic table was created 150 years ago by Russian chemist Dmitri MendeleevAustralia latest Big Thing, at Edith Cowan University's Joondalup campus, was the brainchild of the institution's vice-chancellor Professor Steve Chapman.
"When you build a science building you have to fill it with a lot of high-tech stuff, with fume hoods and benches and gas lines and everything so you kind of build an oblong," Professor Chapman explained. "So I said to the guys, 'Why don't we have the world's largest periodic table?' and they said, 'You're nuts' but then they looked into it and thought, 'We could do that'."
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