>>11529634Not individual elements, but happy relationships. Five well known metals are in the same row: iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc. Even more impressive, copper (a fair stand-in for the cultural notion of bronze), silver and gold are in the same column, and the columns are held to be important relationship, to an extent. And this copper/silver/gold relationship was always the case, but the cultural association of the metals was made as an intermediate step, and then independently found later
