2019 is the International Year of the Periodic Table. Throughout the year, I’ll be adding resources (both my own and those I’ve found on the web) that I find interesting. Drop me a line if there’s something you think should be added.

External links and resources

• My go-to website for an internet-based periodic table is webelements.
• The Royal Society of Chemistry as a rather comprehensive periodic table website.
• Theo Gray‘s periodic table website. I bought the book. I won’t recommend it because Theo does a great job reminding you to spend money every few sentences on the website.
• Article from Life Magazine (1949) describing what we knew (then) about the atom. Here’s the neat periodic table that was spread on pages 82/83:

• Chemical & Engineering News article on arranging the periodic table.
• If you need the Periodic table in different formats (Word, Excel, PPT) the the VIPEr website is your friend. (Thanks Kyle, for the shoutout.)
• I’ve been toying with a program to help me spell with the elements. While that’s in production, see this pretty exhaustive list.
• Podcasts about the elements.
• Short histories on many of the elements from Chemical Engineering and News. This website is from a 2009 National Chemistry Week event.
• A really beautiful graphical periodic table.
• Science Friday published a podcast on the elements.
• Chemistry world has a nice article on historical arrangements of the periodic table.
• Need more haiku in your life? Here’s one for every element.
• This Bloomberg article explains the importance of the elements in our lives – 75 elements in a smartphone!?!?!?!?
• What if you were to collect all of the elements? A thought experiment by Randall Munroe.
• The sort of repeating table of things that make up everything.

My work

I’ve got a few periodic-table projects going on, which can be found on these pages.

• Mandy
• Topographic Tables

Listed below are various posts that I’ve tagged with the Periodic Table. Some are informative, some are just for fun.

• Elemental diagrams
• One year older
• There’s a Chicken in the Lab
• A mole day experiment
• Finishing touches
• The costumes fit
• All abuzz about the Periodic Table
• Props for Conversations…
• Gearing up for Conversations…
• Happy Birthday Ramsay