The Australian Academy of Science is preparing for a big 2019, it being the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements and its application. No, the AAS has not made this up, the year was declared by the UN General Assembly in December 2017. It is to mark the 150th anniversary of the periodic system, discovered in 1869, by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev.
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