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John Cuthber

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  1. Webster's calls itself a dictionary of the English language- but it's a dictionary of the American language. Since it got its own title wrong I'm not suprised that it doesn't know what analyze means.
  2. That's easy. The word analyse comes from the same route as electrolyse and hydrolyse and it should be spelt with an s. For words like deputise or deputize both spellings are acceptable. The word "analyze" means to make something anal.
  3. No they are not, and can you please cite your source. Incidentally, I'm sure that something can be invisible and yellow; I saw it on this website somewhere. Individual pollen grains are invisible and yellow. Here's a picture of one You can't see it, but everyone knows pollen is yellow.
  4. Since many elements show multiple oxidation states the table is ambiguous. If it's meant to me highest oxidation states then copper is wrong; if it's meant to be most common then iron is wrong. If the asignment is arbitrary then it's all wrong. It also fails to convey any information about the underlying reason for the periodic nature. It springs from the arangement of the electrons in what for simplicity's sake are usually called shells.

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