• 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 months ago

      It’s all just made up categorization. It’s like that because astronomers have agreed to categorize them like that. That’s all.