Description Chemistry Clock
The non-scientist among us will wonder why some elements in the chemistry clock have the same color and why the numbers for the elements do not match the corresponding time.
The answer is relatively simple: elements are divided into different groups in the periodic table. For example, there are alkaline earth metals like beryllium, magnesium, calcium (greenish-yellow on the clock) or noble gases like neon, helium, and argon (purple). You can refresh your knowledge about it on this website in connection with this clock.
By what system are the elements now arranged? Scientists have it particularly easy here. The solution can be easily subsumed under the word atomic number. This indicates the number of protons in an atomic nucleus, and therefore calcium fits wonderfully at 8 PM or beryllium at 4 AM. So if you understand the principle, you can use this clock wonderfully to study for the next chemistry test. The trick with this clock is that the atomic numbers are not even recorded on it.
Those who do not have specific knowledge of the periodic table of elements will try to interpret other solutions into the clock and come up with wild theories.
Others will quickly understand why many TVs are turned on around the oxygen-clock-phosphorus. A fluorine-to-chlorine job? Sure, you know it. Or do you work around the clock... um, around the periodic table? ;)
