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By clicking on the image above, you'll be able to explore:
- The history of the Periodic Table in just 2 minutes
- How certain elements changed the course of history
- How the different parts of our planet are made up of the same elemental building blocks
- Where different elements occur, and what places they get their names from
- Which elements make up the human body
- The elements that are vital, and dangerous, to human life
- How an element's atomic structure determines the shape of the table
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I have to use this for an exercise as part of my course and when I click "Launch Now" it comes up with a black screen with three off-centre boxes, none of which I can click on. I am using the most up to date version of Chrome.
Very frustrating.