Library Guides: Chemistry: Periodic tables and data on the elements

Periodic Tables of the Elements

There are many, many versions of periodic tables online. Here's a sampling of some good sites to get you started exploring the elements.

Web Elements - A Periodic Table Database
NMR Periodic Table
Chemicool
Visual Elements Periodic Table
Provided by the Royal Society of Chemistry, this periodic table has photographs of samples of the individual elements.
Periodic Table of Videos
Created by Martin Poliakoff at U Nottingham in the UK. Engaging, instructive videos on properties and history of the elements.
Periodic Table of Comic Books
Clicking on an element symbol leads to pages from comic books that feature the element.
Best Periodic Tables
& more less...
Lists alternate styles of presentation, including spiral, physicist's, and Medeleev's original folded periodic tables.
55 best Online Periodic Tables
From TriplePoint blog site
Photographic Periodic Table of the Elements
Created by Theodore Gray, a historian of the elements

The Library has a collection of books on the history and description of the elements and of the development of the periodic table.

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