The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

A new version of the periodic table arranges elements by protons instead of electrons. The perennially useful original Mendeleev periodic table has led to spinoffs, including for quantum dots.

Four new elements have been added to the standard periodic table and their creators from Japan, Russia and the United States will now come up with permanent names and symbols for them.

So the beauty of the periodic table is that the elements that are in columns, up and down, have similar properties. But there are similarities within a group going across too.

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By Brian Mastroianni December 2, 2016 / 1:36 PM EST / CBS News It’s now time to say hello, officially, to the four new additions to the Periodic Table of Elements.