The first approach would be to have one data element table for each type of data elements.

第一种方法是为每一种类型的数据元素准备一个数据元素表。

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Mendeleyev was bolder than Meyer and even assumed that if a measured atomic mass put an element in the wrong place in the table, the atomic mass was wrong.

门捷列夫比迈耶更大胆，他甚至认为，如果测量到的原子质量在表中把一个元素对应于错误的位置，这个原子质量就是错误的。

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Of course, it was an element the periodic table let us to expect existed before anyone had found it or made it.

当然，它在被人发现或制造前，就是一种元素周期表使得我们期待其存在的元素。

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And then the element and maybe the table.

这种圆点标记法就是为了避免混淆歧义。

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Ironically, today's most fashionable battery material, lithium, is the third-lightest element in that table and therefore one for which no such relativistic effects can be expected.

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As for updating the periodic table, element 118 would slot in just below radon in the column that contains inert gases.

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The next heaviest element in the periodic table, the inert gas helium, is used for detecting cracks in pressure vessels and the like.

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