Campaign launched to get Lego periodic table playset out there

A Spanish scientist is making a bid to bring the periodic table to life as a Lego playset, in a proposal submitted on the company’s website.

While chemistry’s talisman has been represented in brick form before, Enrique Barrajon, a former oncologist in Alicante, Spain, noticed Lego didn’t have an official version, and set about building his own. His scheme, which is based on Heinrich Baumhauer’s 3D design from 1870, creates a spiralling tower that maintains periodicity, with each group of elements lining up vertically, while progressing in atomic number from top to bottom.