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It is not necessary to memorize the Periodic Table. It would essentially be a waste of time for a number of reasons. First, if you need to find an element, the periodic table is readily available. It can be found in any science book, on a lab wall, or online. Secondly,, its not necessary to memorize the table because nobody deals with all the elements, only a certain group. And third, the more the table is used, the more familiar you become with it and finding what your looking for becomes easier. For instance, in just a short time, I already know that non-metals are on the right, metalloids are just to the left of non-metals, and metals are all the elements to the left. It is more important to learn how to use the table and where to look for something than it is to memorize it.

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Many students do. It is a process of sequential numbers and elements. Only a few (such as the lanthanides) will ever change.

However, it would take considerably more effort to memorize the atomic weights, or the possible isotopes of each element.

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