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The Periodic Table of the Elements,
in Pictures

Elements in Pictures (1 page)
Elements in Pictures and Words (2 pages)
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This pictorial periodic table is colorful, fun, and packed with information. In addition to the element's name, symbol, and atomic number, each element box has a drawing of one of the element's main human uses or natural occurrences. The table is color-coded to show the chemical groupings. Small symbols pack in additional information: solid/liquid/gas, color of element, common in the human body, common in the earth's crust, magnetic metals, noble metals, radioactive, and rare or never found in nature. It does not overload kids with a lot of detailed numbers, like atomic weights and valence numbers.

Note: "Elements in Pictures" and "Elements in Words" are a set. Either may stand alone, but they work best together.

Note: I will update these periodic tables when new element names are officially endorsed by the IUPAC. The proposed name of element 112 is Copernicium (Cn).

The Periodic Table of the Elements,
in Words

Elements in Words (1 page)
Elements in Pictures and Words (2 pages)
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This textual periodic table is packed with even more information. In addition to the element's name, symbol, and atomic number, each element box contains a textual description of the element's physical properties and a list of several of its human uses and/or natural occurrences. The table is color-coded to show the chemical groups, and each group is described in a panel of the same color. Other info panels describe atomic structure, chemical bonding, and radioactivity. It does not overload kids with a lot of detailed numbers, but it does provide some simple rules-of-thumb about atomic weights and valence numbers.

See also: The Elements - Quick Descriptions, Uses and Occurrences contains most of the same information, but in a less graphical, more textual html format. It also contains handy links to search for more info about each use.

The Periodic Table of the Elements,
in Pictures and Words

Elements in Pictures and Words (1 big page)
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This has both "Elements in Pictures" and "Elements in Words" combined on a single page.

The Periodic Table of the Elements,
in Pictures (Simplified)

Elements in Pictures (Simplified) (1 page)
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This is exactly the same as "Elements in Pictures" above, but with less information. The fine print - the legend boxes and the small symbols - have been removed. Use this if you want a cleaner image with less visual clutter, or you want less information, or you want to print smaller or at lower resolution.

See also: Plain Periodic Table

Particles

Particles (1 page)
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This chart answers the question, "What is the universe made of?" This chart shows all the fundamental particles in the standard model of particle physics, and many non-fundamental and predicted particles too. It starts with the basics: an atom contains a nucleus of protons and neutrons, which are made of quarks. The chart organizes all the important particles and classes of particles: fundamental fermions (quarks, leptons, electrons, neutrinos), fundamental bosons (photons, W and Z bosons, gluons, gravitons, higgs), composite particles (hadrons, baryons, protons, neutrons, mesons), anti-particles, and predicted supersymmetry particles.

See also: Plain list of particles, standard and hypothetical.

Atomic Orbitals

Atomic Orbitals (1 page)
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This chart answers the question, "What does an atom look like?" This chart shows all the fundamental atomic electron orbitals. It shows the orbitals as electron probability density distributions (fuzzy clouds) rather than the the more common surfaces of constant probability (bulgy blobs) because the electron clouds are as close as you can get to visualizing what an atom really looks like.

See also: Plain atomic orbitals chart