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You complain that wrenches and drills are spread over several columns? Look at a periodic table please! The diagonal line splitting wrenches from drills is precisely the diagonal line splitting ordinary metals from non-metals. That’s one of the bits I’m most proud of! You have no idea how long I agonized over how to make this arrangement not be arbitrary, while at the same time dealing with some of the realities of h…
What are pliers doing in the actinides??
The entire row of actinides is "grabbing and squeezing" tools, except at the end where I have "unsqueezing" tools (spreaders and jacks, which are spreaders to separate things from the earth). Similarly the lanthanides are measuring tools.