Correction to: Foundations of Chemistry https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-022-09448-5

In this article the caption to Fig. 1 was inadvertently truncated. The corrected Fig. 1 and caption should read as follows.

Fig. 1
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Elements discovered and named till the end of eighteenth century (a), elements discovered and named in nineteenth century (b), elements discovered, synthesized and named in twentieth and twenty first century (c)

The original article has been corrected.