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The INTERNET Database of Periodic Tables

There are thousands of periodic tables in web space, but this is the only comprehensive database of periodic tables & periodic system formulations. If you know of an interesting periodic table that is missing, please contact the database curator: Mark R. Leach Ph.D.

Use the drop menus below to search & select from the more than 1300 Period Tables in the database: 

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Periodic Tables from the year 2006:

2006   Where Should Hydrogen Go?
2006   Scerri's Periodic Table
2006   Homeopathic Periodic Table
2006   ADOMAH Periodic Table by Valery Tsimmerman
2006   Wikipedia Alternative Periodic Table
2006   Bent's Exploration into Janet's Left-Step Formulation
2006   Reaction Chemists' Periodic Table
2006   Scerri's The Periodic Table & Its Significance
2006   Element Collection Periodic Table
2006   Radioactivity Periodic Table
2006   Superconducting Elements
2006   Group Numbering Systems
2006   Astronomer's Periodic Table
2006   Beer Styles, Periodic Table of
2006   Elements in Fireworks
2006   Vienna Chicago Style Hot Dog Condiment Periodic Table
2006   Schemata of the Elements
2006   Console Controllers Periodic Table
2006   Look Around You Periodic Table
2006   Periodic Table Mysteries
2006   Various Periodic Tables
2006   Lego Periodic Table
2006   Bent's PlN and Ple (Front Step) Periodic Tables
2006   Harmonic Circle & Spiral of the Chemical Elements
2006   Demers' Système du Québécium
2006   Nandor's Exhaustive Lists of Chemical Words


Year:  2006 PT id = 17

Where Should Hydrogen Go?

There are four possible positions for hydrogen:

By Mark Leach

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Year:  2006 PT id = 20

Eric Scerri's Triad Periodic Table

Eric Scerri says, "I have recently developed a new periodic table with some very nice features. I am now shifting my allegiance from the left-step table to this one."

Read the paper on the philosophy of science web site.

Eric Scerri, The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance, Oxford University Press, 2006. Read an interview with the author, here, and a review of the book here.

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Year:  2006 PT id = 30

Homeopathic

A Homeopathic Periodic Table by Jan Scholten.

From his book Geheime Lanthanide (Secret Lanthanides) 2006. The basic idea is that successive elements in each series ( = row) are like the stages in a heroic story like the labours of Hercules or the voyages of Odysseus, each one appropriate to meet a different challenge.

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Year:  2006 PT id = 32

ADOMAH Periodic Table by Valery Tsimmerman

The ADOMAH periodic table is based on the Janet or left-step periodic table. It consists of four blocks (s, p, d & f) corresponding to quantum numbers l = 0,1,2,3. Blocks are separated, shifted and reconnected with each other via diagonal lines. This arrangement creates "layers" or "strata" that retain continuity in respect to atomic number Z, in addition to usual columns and rows. Therefore, numbers shown on the right hand side of the table may represent either quantum numbers n (electronic shells) if horizontal rows are followed, or n + l if "layers" or "strata" are followed.

This feature assists in creation of electronic configurations of the elements. Elements H and He are placed in two positions that reflect their dual nature and give proper consideration to atomic structure and chemical properties of those two elements. This feature also preserves triads He, Ne, Ar and H, F, Cl. Also, the elements are placed in rectangular "boxes", so any two of such "boxes" make up a square thus symbolising electron pairs. This also cuts table length in half. Unlike the Janet table, this table is assembled from bottom up in direction of increase of quantum number n, as well as atomic weight and energy. The ADOMAH table has symmetry and, assuming total number of elements 120, can be divided in four parts of 30 elements with center point located among precious metals.

 

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Year:  2006 PT id = 35

The Wikipedia Alternative Periodic Table

On the Wikipedia there is another circular form of periodic table:

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Year:  2006 PT id = 42

Henry Bent's Exploration into Janet's Left-Step Formulation

Henry Ben't detailed exploration into the Left-Step formulation of the periodic table is available as a book:

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Year:  2006 PT id = 56

Reaction Chemists' Periodic Table

OK, so which Is The Best formulation of The Periodic Table?

Personally as a reaction chemist, my preferred periodic table is the 'long' form shown below, with hydrogen above and between boron and carbon, although clearly other scientists have other ideas.

All periodic tables show the increase in mass and atomic number, Z, but only the long form unambiguously shows the general top-right-to-bottom-left trends in electronegativity, atomic radius, metallic properties and first ionisation energy.

Electronegativity is absolutely crucial to the understanding of structure, bonding, material type (van Arkel-Ketelaar triangle and Laing tetrahedron) and chemical reactivity, and it underpins much of the chemogenesis analysis.

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Year:  2006 PT id = 106

Eric Scerri's The Periodic Table & Its Significance

Eric Scerri, The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance, Oxford University Press, 2006. Read an interview with the author, here, and a review of the book here.

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Year:  2006 PT id = 119

Element Collection Periodic Table

It is possible to buy sets of elements presented as a periodic table from RGB Research Ltd.

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Year:  2006 PT id = 130

Radioactivity Periodic Table

A periodic table showing the elements that have no stable isotopes, so that all samples are radioactive:

By Mark Leach

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Year:  2006 PT id = 131

Superconducting Elements

A periodic table showing which elements become superconducting at low temperature.

By Mark Leach

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Year:  2006 PT id = 134

Group Numbering Systems

IUPAC


Phase State: Solid, Liquid, Gas at 20°C & 700°C

By Mark Leach

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Year:  2006 PT id = 144

Astronomer's Periodic Table

Highly amusing for chemists is the astronomer's periodic table because astronomers consider there to be three types of element:

By Mark Leach

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Year:  2006 PT id = 170

Beer Styles

A periodic table of Beer Styles from Mantis Design:

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Year:  2006 PT id = 172

Elements in Fireworks

Fireworks rely on the chemical characteristics of the elements that are used to make them. This special periodic table highlights the elements that have significance to fireworks and pyrotechnics:

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Year:  2006 PT id = 174

Vienna Chicago Style Hot Dog Condiments

A periodic table of Vienna Chicago Style Hot Dog Condiments:

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Year:  2006 PT id = 199
Schemata of the Elements

"The conventional periodic table reflects what is called the aufbau design, which represents a progression of numbers; in this case, that of the atomic number of the elements. The table, however, contradicts the aufbau concept in reality, because there are large gaps within among the primary (representative) elements, as well as in relation to the tertiary elements (transition and inner transition elements). The latter case, the Lanthanoids and the Actinoids, lie completely outside of the main body of the periodic table, thereby effectively breaking down the aufbau design... more..." from here by Charles William Johnson:

The Neutronic Schemata: Specialized Schemata of the Elements

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Year:  2006 PT id = 207

Console Controllers

A periodic table of console (game) controllers, here. Click here for a larger version.

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Year:  2006 PT id = 232

Look Around You Periodic Table

A spoof periodic table form the BBC comedy science program, Look Around You:

 

You will need to click here to see the full size graphic and spot the jokes, for example :

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Year:  2006 PT id = 254

The Periodic Table Mysteries

In this series, Dr. Gloria Lamerino, retired physicist back from California, moves into an apartment above a funeral home in Revere, Massachusetts. When she signs on to help the Police Department in science-related homicides, she doesn't realize she may have 109 cases ahead of her...

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Year:  2006 PT id = 282

Various Periodic Tables

As discussed on this page of the Chemogenesis webbook, the periodic table is ambiguous as to what it is showing.

Does the PT show the element as the abstract 'basic substance', or gas phase atoms or the material substance?

By Mark Leach

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Year:  2006 PT id = 478

Lego: Periodic Table

A Lego Periodic Table:

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Year:  2006 PT id = 535

Bent's PlN and Ple (Front Step) Periodic Tables

In his book, New Ideas in Chemistry from Fresh Energy for the Periodic Law, here, Henry Bent introduces the PlN and Ple (Front Step) Periodic Tables, Figs 50 & 52:

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Year:  2006 PT id = 563

Harmonic Circle & Spiral of the Chemical Elements

Brian David Andersen of Tri-Vortex Technology (Researcher/Inventor/Scientist), Subtle Energy Products trivortex.com:

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Year:  2006 PT id = 1078

Demers' Système du Québécium

Updated from this 2002 entry comes: Quebec System, Numbers and geometry in the classification of the elements by Pierre Demers.

Demers writes:

"First, I present the Periodic Table of Elements, and I proceed to improve it. By an arithmetic and geometrical analysis, I make appear important symmetries of order four which exist in the arrangement of the atoms between them. I confirm these results with an original discussion of irregular atoms. I will try, in a work that will follow, to interpret the symmetries of the classification by the symmetries of the atom which are associated with the precession cones of the kinetic moments and orbitals."

Read [much] more on this page of links:



 

 

Thanks to Conal for the tip!

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Year:  2006 PT id = 1209

Nandor's Exhaustive Lists of Chemical Words

From a really interesting PT website, Mark Nandor's Exhaustive Chemical Words:

So what, exactly, is a "chemical word"? It is an English word that can be spelt using element symbols as 'letters', [famously] for example: Beer (or BeEr):

Arches can be "spelt" in two ways:

ArCHeS   [Argon, Carbon, Helium, Sulfur]
ArCHEs   [Argon, Carbon, Hydrogen, Einsteinium]

On the other hand, there is no way at all to "spell" a work like pillar.

Mark Nandor provides several exhaustive lists:

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