Bill Gates has many things in his office just outside Seattle, including a wall-mounted periodic table with samples of most elements. Now you might be wondering, ‘why not all of the elements’? Some are radioactive, very rare, or only exist for a couple of seconds in a particle accelerator.
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In place of the missing elements, you’ll find an associative object. For example, a picture of Einstein represents the element einsteinium and the coat or arms of Poland the element polonium, which was first discovered in Poland. As for gold, it’s represented by an Intel Pentium Pro processor, which has up to 400 mg of the chemical element in the form of hundreds of gold-plated pins around the edge and under-surface.
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Bill Gates has one in his office, and now one can also be found in our Huygens Building: a cabinet displaying the periodic table of elements. The cabinet contains 85 of the 118 physical elements of the periodic table, and is unique in the Netherlands,” said Radboud University.
