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Isotopes matter

Norman E. Holden·Tyler B. Coplen·Peter Mahaffy
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Two years ago, the King’s Centre for Visualization in Science (KCVS) at The King’s University, Edmonton released a new digital interactive version of the IUPAC Periodic Table of the Elements and Isotopes with accompanying educational resources at an International Conference on Chemistry Education. It can be found at www.isotopesmatter.com. The effort was part of an IUPAC project . The science behind this new table was developed by Inorganic Chemistry Division scientists working for over a decade on an earlier IUPAC project . These projects were joint efforts between the IUPAC Committee on Chemistry Education (CCE) and the Inorganic Chemistry Division.

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Norman E. Holden, Tyler B. Coplen, Peter Mahaffy. 2019-01-07. Isotopes matter. https://doi.org/10.1515/ci-2019-0107

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