“You Just Sunk My Copernicium!” Playing Periodic Table Battleship
Teach your kids about the wonders of the periodic table with this easy and fun version of Battleship
Periodic table
Ceiling Periodic Table
When high school chemistry teacher Scott Byrum noticed that the acoustic tiles in his newly-renovated lab were square, he saw a golden opportunity. Or, if you like, a palladium one.
Kabbalistic spiral periodic table
I love this Helix Chemica scanned from a 1944 edition of Hackh’s Chemical Dictionary. Besides the usual information about atomic structure and periodicity of properties, this variant on the familiar table displays the natural abundance of each element in living organisms, the sun, the sky, the ocean, and terrestrial and extraterrestrial rocks.
The Periodic Table of Imaginary Elements
Russell Walks wrote in to share his Periodic Table of Imaginary Elements poster, which details 122 made-up elements ranging from Superman’s Kryptonite to Star Trek’s Corbomite to Futurama’s Crapcrapium.
“Meta” periodic table
Bill Keaggy, who’s something of a list-artist (his collections of found grocery lists and sad chairs are also pretty amusing), brings us this periodic table of periodic tables. I’ve blogged about the vast number of alternative representations of the periodic table before, and while, apart from the division into themed “blocks,” there doesn’t seem to be any meta-logic organizing Bill’s meta-table that would correspond to the real logic that organizes the real periodic table, it’s definitely an entertaining notion. Static images are available from Bill’s Flickr stream. [via Boing Boing]
Build a Periodic Table of Elements Collection Cabinet
Create this cool spice rack-like periodic table display for your elements collection. You do have an elements collection, don’t you?
Alternative representations of the periodic table
The periodicity of properties of the chemical elements has been represented many, many different ways since Mendeleev. The modern standardized periodic table is only one of a potentially infinite number of graphical representations of the empirical trends. If you understand the logic of the periodic table, looking through these “alternative” representations can be a lot of fun. There are hundreds of them! [via Boing Boing]
