I have recently discovered a completely new form of the periodic table.
I place hydrogen among the halogens. This has been done by many others
previously.

My reason for doing so is the gaining of a new perfect triad in the sense of
atomic number triads.

I then rearrange the table so that the first column on the left is headed by
hydrogen among the halogens. I thereby obtain an added bonus of two periods of
8,
followed by 2 periods of 18 elements etc. Every single period without fail,
repeats, unlike
in the conventional medium-long form in which the first very short period of 2
elements
is anomalous.

The table is posted on Mark Leach's excellent PT website at

http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt.html

There is also a link to another site where I have deposited a pre-print of an
article to explain this new table in detail. Comments welcome.

Happy New Year
Eric Scerri,
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author of The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance, Oxford University
Press, 2006.
This has been the best selling book on the PT since it was published in
September.

"An absolutely gorgeous book. I put it on my bedside table and then stayed up
half the night reading it - it is immensely readable."
---Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Awakenings
etc.