April 6, 2002

8:43 AM

The Periodic Table of Comic Books scans comic book pages that have mentioned any of the elements, and they're always looking for a comic that mentions samarium, praseodymium, or seaborgium, to name but a few. Periodic Table affecionados might also want to take The Periodic Table Challenge - dastardly hard.
posted by iconomy (8 comments total)

not usually a fan of anything flash related, but heres a *dam* fine flash version of the periodic table
posted by monkeyJuice at 9:34 AM on April 6, 2002

great site monkeyjuice, thanks.
posted by redhead at 10:12 AM on April 6, 2002

Well at least I got the 16 elements I am suppose to know to do my job.
posted by bjgeiger at 10:17 AM on April 6, 2002

if you read how they did that challenge -- they use the old mac program Hypercard! wow, I don't believe it!

If I could count, I'd know where to put gold. As it was, I only got 6.
posted by meep at 10:56 AM on April 6, 2002

Cheat sheet: The Elements, by Tom Lehrer
posted by sheauga at 12:04 PM on April 6, 2002

I've always liked that silly song and had forgotten all about it. If you scroll halfway down this page there's a wav and an mp3 of it. I just love it when people chime in with good links.
posted by iconomy at 12:29 PM on April 6, 2002

73 on the periodic challenge, but that's appalling considering my profession. if my boss finds out, i'm so dumped.
i'm too busy reading mefi to care about the elements.
posted by nylon at 1:06 PM on April 6, 2002

ooops, i forgot to mention how excellent the first link was, the one about the comic books. even though i'm not at all a comic book fan. nice one, iconomy. although the very first element i looked at, francium, had some terrible mistakes on the comic page (farancium, rubibium... heh!)
posted by nylon at 1:18 PM on April 6, 2002