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Every chemist (and arguably every scientist, and arguably everyone else in the world), whether amateur or professional, should have an elements collection. Theodore Gray has written eloquently about the hows and wherefores of collecting the chemical elements, so I won't belabor the point here other than to say: chemistry has been called the central science, and arguably, chemistry's greatest achievement has been the discovery of the chemical elements, the realization of the periodicity of their properties and its implications for atomic structure, and the isolation of each of those elements in its pure or "standard" state. Collecting the individual elements lets you participate in that incredible story in a way that no amount of book-learnin' ever will.

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