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During the event, institutes of the Region of Murcia have received a diploma of recognition for presenting projects made by their students to know the periodic table and that are exposed in the Faculty of Chemistry
Correos presented on Tuesday the stamp dedicated to the 2019 International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements in an event held at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Murcia.
With this stamp, the postal and parcel company recognizes one of the most universal icons in science.
The periodic table is the simplest, visual and complete way to show the elements from which all things are made.
It is the alphabet with which the language of science is made beyond languages ​​and borders.
The presentation ceremony was attended by the rector of the University of Murcia, José Luján, and the director of the Philately Post Office, Modesto Fraguas, accompanied by the dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, Pedro Lozano, and the President of the EuChemS, Pilar Goya .
The ones in charge of this presentation, as a whole, have made a postmark of honor in the presence of numerous assistants from both the university and postcard and philatelic world.
The envelope that accompanies the seal is illustrated with the façade of the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Murcia, which has built on its main facade the largest Periodic Table of the Elements in the world.
The image of this facade has been used by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) before the general assemblies of UNESCO / UN to get the declaration of the year 2019 as 'International Year of the Periodic Table'.
Projects of institutes of the Region of Murcia
The presentation of the Post Office stamp has taken place during an event in which the UMU Faculty of Chemistry wanted to recognize the work of nine institutes in the Region of Murcia in teaching the periodic table.
These centers have exhibited in the faculty hall the projects that during the past year their students carried out as part of the learning of the periodic table of the elements.
Giant tables with information about the discoverers of the elements, curiosities, their relationship with everyday objects or board games to learn the elements are some of the works that have been seen.
One of the most striking is a periodic table in which the elements have been replaced by paintings from the Thyssen Museum that hide some relationship with some of the elements.
When using an application on these pictures, all the information about the element and its relation to the painting in question is received.
The centers that have participated in this exhibition are: IES Alcántara (Alcantarilla), IES Alquipir (Cehegín), IES El Carmen (Murcia), IES Floridablanca (Murcia), Herma School (Murcia), Salzillo School (Molina de Segura), IES Sierra Minera (La Unión), IES Basilica (Algezares, Murcia) and IES Carthago Espartaria (La Palma, Cartagena).
With the delivery of the diplomas the Faculty of Chemistry has ended 15 days dedicated to the periodic table of the elements, during which conferences have been held.
About the periodic table
The periodic table is a collective work to which a large number of scientists have contributed who have managed to place the bricks of which the universe is made in their corresponding positions.
It is easily recognizable by its crenellated castle shape, consisting of 18 groups and 7 periods in one of its most common representations.
This year 2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of the first version of the modern periodic table proposed by Dimitri Ivánovich Mendeleev, a fact that the United Nations wanted to highlight with the 2019 declaration as the International Year of the Periodic Table of the Elements Chemicals
For this reason and at the request promoted by Javier García, researcher of the UA and member of the executive committee of the International Chemistry Union, and Daniel Martín, assistant to the World Economic Forum and post office employee, together with the postal and parcel company, returns to issue a stamp, this time, to recognize the Spanish contribution to the development of the periodic table.
The Russian scientist Mendeleev realized that not all chemical elements had been discovered and that he should leave spaces for those who were yet to come.
This genius was precisely what the designer of the label, Mendeleev's Periodic Table of Elements, who issued the Post Office in 2007 coincided with the centenary of the death of this universal Russian.
In the stamp presented on Tuesday, the chemical elements discovered by Spaniards appear simulating teeth, as if they were stamps, on a periodic background table.
With large letters and adorned with the flag of Spain, stand out a V, a W and a Pt, which are the symbols of the three elements that Spanish discovered.
Their names may not be as well known as one would expect, but Antonio Andrés del Río (discoverer of vanadium), the Achievement brothers Juan José and Fausto Delhuyar (who isolated tungsten in Vergara) and Antonio de Ulloa (who found platinum in Ecuador) There are four great scientists that Spain can be proud of, since few countries can take pride in having contributed to the development of the periodic table.
Technical characteristics of the seal
• Printing Procedure: Offset
•Self-adhesive paper
• Seal size: 35.5 x 24.5 mm
• Effects on specifications: 50
• Postal value of the stamps: Rate A "
• Roll: Unlimited
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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