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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 2017:

2017   Alternative Periodic Table
2017   New Rendering of ADOMAH Periodic Table
2017   Venn Diagram of the Chemical Elements and the United States
2017   NAWA's Periodic Tables
2017   BBC's Every Element of Wonder Periodic Table
2017   Habashi Book: The Periodic Table & Mendeleev
2017   Daily Mail Outrage, Periodic Table of
2017   Tetris Version of the Periodic Table
2017   Stowe's A Physicist's Periodic Table UPDATED
2017   Clock Prism Periodic Table, Braille Version
2017   Stewart's Chemosphere
2017   Moran's Periodic Spiral (updated)
2017   Technology, Periodic Table of
2017   PeriodicStats
2017   Elements Known and now Named in the Year 2017
2017   Haiku, Elemental
2017   Atomic Nuclei Periodic Table
2017   Kurushkin's Spiral Periodic Table
2017   University of Murcia's Oversize Periodic Table
2017   Gray's Wooden Periodic Table Table Video
2017   Restrepo's Similarity Landscape


Year:  2017 PT id = 739

Alternative Periodic Table

From Useful Charts:

You'll notice that this periodic table looks quite a bit different from the one you're used to. The traditional periodic table is designed to emphasize the concept of valence, which is important for knowing which elements can easily combine with others to form compounds. In contrast, the periodic table below is designed to simply emphasize the way in which atoms are "built" (specifically, how electrons group together into shells and subshells).

It's based on a design proposed by Edward Mazurs in the 1960s. Like the traditional table, this alternative version can be used to find an elements name, number, atomic weight, state of matter, period, group, and block. However, it also contains detailed information on electron configurations and the different types of electron subshells.

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Year:  2017 PT id = 741

New Rendering of ADOMAH Periodic Table

From Valery Tsimmerman, of the PerfectPeriodicTable.com and the ADOMAH Periodic Table:

"I received email from Dr. Marcus Wolf who is a chemist, working on renewable energy and electrochemical storage in Germany, near Nuremberg. He also lectures at Georg Simon Ohm, Technische Hochschule Nürnberg. Attached to his email was new version of ADOMAH Periodic Table that he created. In this new rendering he is using Jensen's Valence Manifold (VM)."

This is what Dr. Marcus Wolf wrote:

"The first one to come up with the idea of using a valence manifold VM = [e + v] as a label for the groups, was Will B. Jensen. He derived it from the very early attempts of Richard Abegg, who, at around 1904, brought up the hypothesis of 'main- and counter-valences', derived from the observable behavior of elements and their compounds in electrochemical experiments. Eric Scerri is citing Jensen in his latest book, in the chapter about Richard Abegg. But Jensen's proper article from 1983 or so is far more detailed and in his later publications he then introduces the valence manifold concept. Last weekend I accidentally observed another consistency between the G-values and their ordering and the valence electron counts, e. If you fix the e value of the starting group in a given l-block as e(initial), you could generate every G-number of a given group by adding the valence vacancy count, v, to it:

G = e(initial) + v.

"That is another hint for the consistency of the VM labelling concept."

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Year:  2017 PT id = 745

Venn Diagram of the Chemical Elements and the United States

A rather nice Venn diagram showing the intersection of the chemical element symbols and the States of the Union (based on an origional found at I Love Charts):



Thanks to Eric Scerri for the tip!
See the website EricScerri.com and Eric's Twitter Feed
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Year:  2017 PT id = 747

NAWA Periodic Tables

Nagayasu Nawa - "A Japanese school teacher and periodic table designer" - has a home page showing all his designs:

NAWA Periodic Tables

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Year:  2017 PT id = 750

BBC | Every Element of Wonder Periodic Table

Y&R London team up with FLINK, represented by Independent / Indy8, to craft an ad for BBC's Every Element of Wonder campaign, highlighting its learning running across TV, radio and social media platforms.:

Periodic Table of Education Technology

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Year:  2017 PT id = 753

Habashi Book: The Periodic Table & Mendeleev

By Fathi Habashi, a small book:

Courtines 3D PT

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Year:  2017 PT id = 756

Daily Mail Outrage, Periodic Table of

From The Poke, a Periodic Table of Daily Mail Outrage. We particularly like the groupings of Blind Fury, Pious Indignation, Inbred Loathing, Existential Angst, Swivel-Eyed Ignorance, Sexual Frisson, Sheer Envy & Egregious Knee-Jerk.

T-shirt, poster & Tea Towel versions are available. Click here for the large version:

Daily Mail

Thanks to Marcus Lynch for the tip!

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Year:  2017 PT id = 758

Tetris Version of the Periodic Table

From a Piled Higher and Deeper [Ph.D. Comics] video, here, a Tetris version of the Periodic Table:

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Year:  2017 PT id = 759

Stowe's A Physicist's Periodic Table UPDATED

Stowe's 'A Physicist's Periodic Table' was published in 1989, and is a famous & well respected formulation of the periodic table.

Since 1989 quite a number of elements have been discovered and Jeries A. Rihani has produced an updated and extended version. Click here to see the full size .pdf version:

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Year:  2017 PT id = 760

Clock Prism Periodic Table, Braille Version

From the prolific Nagayasu Nawa, a Braille version of the Clock Prism periodic table:

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Year:  2017 PT id = 761

Stewart's Chemosphere

P J Stewart, a good friend of the periodic table database, has mapped a PT onto a sphere.

PJS writes: "It is Janet Rajeuni 2014  wrapped round a sphere, going back to Mazurs 1965, and Tsimmerman 2006.  Arabic numerals indicate shells (values of principal quantum number); Roman numerals indicate periods."

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Year:  2017 PT id = 764

Moran's Periodic Spiral (Updated)

Jeff Moran has updated his 1999 Periodic Spiral.

Click here for a larger version.

Jeff says: I offer the attached spiral formulation as a way of expressing the relationships of the f and d blocs to group 3:

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Year:  2017 PT id = 767

Technology, Periodic Table of

Go to the website and hover over the element to see how it is used in modern technology:

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Year:  2017 PT id = 768

PeriodicStats

A periodic table with a minimalist design ethic, optimized for phones and tablets:

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Year:  2017 PT id = 901

Elements Known and now Named in the Year 2017

Elements in the year 2017, now the elements 113 – 118 have been named: Nihonium (113, Nh), Flerovium (114, Fl), Moscovium (115, Mc), Livermorium (116, Lv), Tennessine (117, Ts) & Oganesson (118, Og) have been named.

Taken from this Wikipedia page:

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Year:  2017 PT id = 904

Haiku, Elemental

By Mary Soon Lee, a review of the Periodic Table composed of 119 science haiku, one for each element, plus a closing haiku for element 119 (not yet synthesized). The haiku encompass astronomy, biology, chemistry, history, physics, and a bit of whimsical flair. Click here, then hover over an element on the Periodic Table to read the haiku.

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Year:  2017 PT id = 916

Atomic Nuclei Periodic Table

From the Pyramids on Nuclei of Elements blog, a periodic table of atomic nuclei using 'pyramidal cube theory':

Click image below (updated in 2020) to enlarge:

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Year:  2017 PT id = 917

Kurushkin's Spiral Periodic Table

Mikhail Kurushkin has a way of constructing the standard long form periodic table from the Janet Left-Step formulation.

Mikhail writes in his J.Chem.Educ paper DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00242; J. Chem. Educ. 2017, 94, 976?979

"Addition of another s-block to the left of the left-step periodic table [enables it] to be rolled into a spiral so that the left and right s-blocks are merged together and the number of elements is exactly 118. The resulting periodic table is called the "spiral" periodic table, which is the fundamental representation of periodicity":

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Year:  2017 PT id = 939

University of Murcia's Oversize Periodic Table

From C&EN:

The faculty at the University of Murcia in Spain has a giant periodic table of the elements emblazoned on the facade of the school's chemistry building.

Covering 150 m2, the table displays 118 elements identified by their symbol, atomic number, and atomic mass. "It could be the world's largest permanent periodic table placed on a wall", Pedro Lozano Rodriguez, dean of the department of chemistry at the school, tells Newscripts.

A number of local companies chipped in to place the oversize chart on the side of the building, including the energy firm Repsol, the brewer Estrella de Levante, and personal care products maker Tahe Productos Cosméticos. Lozano says the display will serve as part of an introductory chemistry lesson for incoming freshmen.

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Year:  2017 PT id = 947

Gray's Wooden Periodic Table Table Video

Theo Gray collects elements and has put together this awesome Periodic Table Table. This week Reactions explores the science and chemistry going on inside this periodic table.

Step into his office at Wolfram Research, and you'll see a silicon disc engraved with Homer Simpson, a jar of mercury, uranium shells and thousands of other chemical artifacts. But his real DIY masterpiece is the world's first "periodic table table". Within this masterfully constructed table-top lay samples of nearly every element known to man, minus the super-radioactive ones.

Theo Gray is 2011 winner of the ACS Grady Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public. The Periodic Table Table is a testament to Theo's love for chemistry -- as well as his Ebay buying habits -- and is full of fascinating stories.

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Year:  2017 PT id = 1120

Restrepo's Similarity Landscape

Building Classes of Similar Chemical Elements from Binary Compounds and Their Stoichiometries by Guillermo Restrepo, Chapter 5 from: Elements Old and New: Discoveries, Developments, Challenges, and Environmental Implications p 95-110.

From the abstract:

Similarity is one of the key concepts of the periodic table, which was historically addressed by assessing the resemblance of chemical elements through that of their compounds. A contemporary approach to the similarity among elements is through quantum chemistry, based on the resemblance of the electronic properties of the atoms involved. In spite of having two approaches, the historical one has been almost abandoned and the quantum chemical oversimplified to free atoms, which are of little interest for chemistry. Here we show that a mathematical and computational historical approach yields well-known chemical similarities of chemical elements when studied through binary compounds and their stoichiometries; these similarities are also in agreement with quantum chemistry results for bound atoms. The results come from the analysis of 4,700 binary compounds of 94 chemical elements through the definition of neighbourhoods for every element that were contrasted producing similarity classes. The method detected classes of elements with different patterns on the periodic table, e.g. vertical similarities as in the alkali metals, horizontal ones as in the 4th-row platinum metals and mixed similarities as in the actinoids with some transition metals. We anticipate the methodology here presented to be a starting point for more temporal and even more detailed studies of the periodic table.

Lindsay's Periodic Table

Thanks to René for the tip!

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