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Cover illustration and illustrations for winter issue of Elementi magazine (2019):

2019 marked the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev's periodic table of elements; As new elements are being discovered, the periodic table keeps growing The article highlights some of the earliest attempts to categorize chemical elements leading up to Dmitri Mendeleev's modern periodic table Who will receive a letter signed with a chemical element? Mutual discovery: Dmitri Mendeleev and Julius Lothar Meyer Measuring the atomic weight of water Sorting chemical elements by weight; The celestial origins of the earliest chemical elements found on Earth

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