Part one of term paper
In his book The Periodic Kingdom, P.W. Atkins takes a different approach to trying to explain the periodic table to the common reader. He compares the periodic table to a kingdom and then uses other analogies and similes to explain different aspects of the table. When you first open the book and look at the table of contents one can tell that ...

Part two of term paper
... This is a land of the imagination, but it is closer to reality then it appears to be. This is the kingdom of the chemical elements, the substances from which everything tangible is made.....” This is the start of the analogy that spans the entire novel. Still in Chapter 1, Atkins describes the “landscape” of the table as, “savannah blends into gentle valleys, which gradually deepen into almost fathomless gorges; hills gradually rise from plains to become towering mountains.” By using ...