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Periodic Tables

A periodic table is a 'must' for Chemistry. There are many periodic tables on the Internet, but this is a collection of the best-of-the-best. Each table I have selected either offers unique information or presents the data particularly well.
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Periodic Table of the Elements

This handy table is from your About Guide. Check back often for additional facts and figures.

Printable Periodic Table of the Elements

Download or print these periodic tables to help work chemistry problems or to predict properties of the elements.

Free Periodic Table Wallpaper

Download the periodic table for your computer wallpaper. This is a colorful, useful (and free) way to spice up your desktop.

Photographic Periodic Table of the Elements

This photographic periodic table of the elements includes thumbnails to show pictures of the elements. Click on the element to see more photos of the elements and to get facts about the element.

10 Periodic Table Facts

The periodic table organizes the elements according to their periodic properties. Find 10 periodic table facts that are interesting and informative.

Who Invented the Periodic Table?

Do you know who described the first periodic table of the elements that ordered the elements by increasing atomic weight and according to trends in their properties? I'll give you a hint. It was not Dmitri Mendeleev. The actual inventor of the periodic table is someone rarely mentioned in chemistry history books.

Periodic Table of the Elements - Element Pictures

The purpose of this periodic table of the elements is to show you what each of the elements looks like. Click on an element symbol to see a picture of the element.

Periodic Table Study Guide

Learn about the periodic table of the elements. Find out about the history of the periodic table, how the elements are organized, and how to use the periodic table to predict the behavior of unfamiliar elements.

Javascript Periodic Table of the Elements

This is an interactive javascript periodic table of the elements. Click on an symbol on the periodic table to get facts about the element.

Periodic Table of the Elements for Kids

This table was made with kids and homework in mind. It includes element groups and periods, element symbols, atomic numbers, atomic weights, and links to detailed facts for each element.

Free Periodic Table of the Elements

This is a public domain periodic table of the elements that you can freely use and print.

Mendeleev's Periodic Table of the Elements

This is the English translation of Dmitri Mendeleev's periodic table of the elements.

Mendeleev's Periodic Table of the Elements

See what Dmitri Mendeleev's original periodic table of the elements looked like. Blank spaces predict the existence of elements that hadn't been discovered.

Printable Periodic Tables

Sometimes it's nice to have a paper version of the periodic table of the elements that you can refer to when working problems or doing experiments in the lab. This is a collection of periodic tables that you can print and use.

Firework Periodic Table

Use this special periodic table to find out what elements are found in fireworks and how they are used. Just click on an element to learn more.

Gallery of Printable Periodic Tables

This is an image gallery of printable periodic tables. You can use it to help select the printable table that is best suited to your needs.

Groups of Elements - Periodic Table

Elements can be categorized according to their similar properties. Here's a periodic table that organizes the elements according to groups. Click an element symbol and learn about the group to which it belongs.

Periodic Tables

Download and print a periodic table or take a look at other types of periodic tables, including Mendeleev's original periodic table of the elements.

Chinese Periodic Table

Each ideogram is letter of an element. This unusual table is from Patrick Han, Ithaca College.

Elements with Biological Roles

Periodic table contains links to metalloenzymes. From the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes.

Japanese Periodic Table

This interactive table is from the Research Center for Computational Science, Institute for Molecular Science.

Periodic Table of Radii and Ions

Three-dimensional representations require Chime plug-in. From Scot Wherland, Washington State University.

Rutherford - Lexikon der Elemente

Internet edition of the periodic table. Shareware version also available.

X-Ray Absorption Edges

Periodic table showing X-ray absorption edge energies and anomalous scattering coefficients. From Ethan A. Merritt, University of Washington.

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