No, although I’m sure some people do. Fortunately it’s always possible to look it up, but like most things once you become familiar with it you’ll find that you remember large parts of it almost without trying.
I probably couldn’t even tell you the first 10. The great thing about higher education is you don’t have to remember stuff like that, you just look it up in a book or on the internet when you need to.
I remember a few important stats and figure for elements that I use all the time, but I have an app on my phone to look others up, and there is a periodic table on the wall in the lab.
Once you get beyond school and sixth form remembering stuff like that is a bit of a waste of time. I even remember a few lecturers at university specifically telling us to avoid ‘memorising’ things, but rather to think about things.
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