We have a table of the elements with properties varying periodically with atomic mass, so we compress all of that information and refer to it as the Periodic Table.

我们有一个元素表，其中的元素的特性,随着原子质量的改变而引起周期性的变化，所以我们将所有的信息精简,将它变成一个周期表。

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So this is our grade game, and what I'm going to do, since it's kind of hard to absorb all the information just by reading a paragraph of text, I'm going to make a table to record the information.

就是我们的成绩博弈,因为这么长一段文字,从中摘取信息有点困难,不如我们列表整理信息

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