Knitting the periodic table

Abstract

Knitting and chemistry are not two things that most people would group together. Often the arts and science are viewed as two separate entities that have rare occasion to exist together in harmony. Contrarily, it seems as though science and creativity should go hand in hand -where there are great creative efforts put towards science, new things can be discovered and old problems can be solved. In order to illustrate the importance of this relationship between science and creativity, I mesh the art of knitting together with one of the most fundamental and useful scientific tools that exists -the periodic table of the elements.