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[โ€“] cRazi_man@europe.pub 57 points 1 day ago (19 children)

Why is this something widespread? I did chemistry up till A-levels and no one ever asked me to memorise the periodic table and no one gave a shit about committing it to memory. WTF is going on.

[โ€“] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I did my master in physical chemistry. The pretty advanced periodic table the university bookstore sold was allowed at exam. On the other hand I memorized amino acids for some reaso

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