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minus-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-28 months agobut so what? we used to have a handful of elements, but when we kept discovering more, we didn’t change the rules to have elements, and “strange elements” so schools only have to teach about 16 elements.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 months agoIt’s all just made up categorization. It’s like that because astronomers have agreed to categorize them like that. That’s all.
but so what?
we used to have a handful of elements, but when we kept discovering more, we didn’t change the rules to have elements, and “strange elements” so schools only have to teach about 16 elements.
It’s all just made up categorization. It’s like that because astronomers have agreed to categorize them like that. That’s all.