Interactive Periodic table

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ain't it always this way? Was looking for something else, then found this. I think this is the one that does melting points, etc

http://www.chemicalelements.com/

!@#$! ! I'm sorry, all, this ain't it. I should test it before I do. Mods, feel free to delete this thread.

Erm... it works for me. Just click on the element to go to a page on its data, which includes its melting point.

Personally, I have kalzium - but that's part of KDE on Linux.

Also, wikipedia is pretty good for all this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table

You're thinking of ptable dot com. It has all the tabs and features. Way more than Kalzium.

You might want to check out Theodore Gray's Wooden Periodic Table of The Elements:

http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/index.html

And of course there is his Gray Matter column at Popular Science.

I cut the legs off the Periodic table - King Missle...

(Cues Tom Lehrer )

One interesting thought, almost a 'pet peeve', that I have had for a loooong time regarding the elements involves the discovery dates for some of them. When the descriptions of several of them give 'known to ancients', I think 'yes, these substances were known by ancient people, *BUT* - when were they first described as having their own special spots on the periodic table?'. To me, the 'discovery date' for those elements would be when they were first described as being true chemical elements as we know them. Thus, I would think that the discovery dates for elements such as gold, silver, iron, copper, lead and so forth would be in the 1600s or 1700s, at the very earliest.

Mike

hmm...gold and copper go back at least to the earliest Egyptians, which is thousands of years ago. Iron goes to the ancient Greeks, and even farther back (Assyrians, if'n I remember correctly).
Most of them are transition metals .. Middle ages were things like Arsenic and Phosphorus.

i've just found this one:

http://www.webelements.com/
(link)

which seems quite useful. it has pictures which I like & if you click on 'biology' a 'personalised' ppb mass in human body calculator.

the one I was thinking of (originally) had a feature where you could set a temperature, and it would tell you what elements were solid, liquid, or gas at that temperature. It was color coded. Oh well, no big deal, I was just going through my URLS and found this...

that sounds cool pakled


I found this one too but mostly it's just silly. Periodic table with electron shells as flowers for gods sake.
the very very last one shows a periodic table representing similarity to H and He. I thought that was semi interesting

(click to link)

Well, the whole thing got started years ago, when I was going to do the 'geekiest' Star Trek thing; a periodic table of the elements mentioned on Star Trek...

Here's the updated version -


sadly, it's not interactive...

the original is quite too big to post here...

Various versions of this but the meaning is the same. I suppose an interactive periodic table reinforces one's own memory.

I do like the Star Trek version, although it's not interactive. Those tables that are not rows/columns are misleading in that 'column' designates atomic radii increases as one goes down the table.

There is a problem with the star trek table, it has T as a new element discovered after 2030. The problem is that T is for tritium which has been known since about WWII. Tritium for those who are not in the know is the name of H-3, it is a super low energy pure beta emitter which is very useful as a tracer in chemistry and for glow in the dark products.

If I spot any other elements I will point them out.

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What about this:

http://periodictable.com/ipad/