17-Year-Old Delhi Girl Redesigns Periodic Table With Global Issues

Look at this 17-year-old changing the world with her art!

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Kaanchi Chopra, a 17-year-old Delhi girl, uses her art as a medium of conversation about social issues. This budding artist has picked up various issues like body shaming, acid attacks, poverty, etc.

Her most recent project, which has the Internet going gaga, is the reworking of the Periodic Table. For those who have done their best to erase all memories of 10th grade Chemistry – the Periodic Table arranges elements in order of their atomic number, usually in rows.

Kaanchi has worked on the two letters, that are used as short for elements, to name a social evil. Here are some examples.

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90 elements now become 90 vices that plague the world. Here is the complete Table.

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Funnily enough, her inspiration came from studying her 12th grade Chemistry textbook.

I realized that each and every symbol of the elements in the Periodic Table was an acronym of a global issue. It could be expanded to form a word which represented one of humanity’s worst vices. A few words in this table also represent the various movements and social issues which have gained a lot of attention in the recent times.

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