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goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:31:35 -0800

Periodic Table of Elements

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:33:39 -0800

Posting page ate my link? Here we go: Periodic table of elements.

By: JDHarper

JDHarper — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:34:55 -0800

Metafilter: New post? OM NOM NOM NOM.

By: wendell

wendell — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:40:18 -0800

He Likes Beer But Can Not Correctly Post Links?

By: ericb

ericb — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:41:12 -0800

It this something where you need to know chemistry to understand?

By: nola

nola — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:41:14 -0800

I doubt I personally could ever find a use for this but it's a cool sorta well put together site.

By: empath

empath — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:41:15 -0800

take that, hama7.

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:42:36 -0800

This is neat; my wife will enjoy using this when teaching chemistry. To try to end the jokes: IM IN UR METAFILTER EATING UR POSTZ All your posts are belong to us

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:44:42 -0800

I kind of liked it better before I fixed it. Content is so passe.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:45:15 -0800

Thanks for de-Zenning, Metafilter Elf!

By: Artw

Artw — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:45:16 -0800

MetaFilterPostEater: WANTS

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:45:38 -0800

Um, I mean cortex.

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:46:26 -0800

Oh, cortex fixed it...now the jokes, they do nothing!

By: wendell

wendell — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:51:17 -0800

cortex in... context out...

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:51:24 -0800

Anyone having trouble with this in Safari? Works fine for me in Firefox, but it's no-go in Safari.

By: bwg

bwg — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:21:22 -0800

Ha, cool. I was wondering when this would end up on MeFi. A short while ago I contacted Mr. Dayah for permission to adapt his design for an idea I had for a Periodic Table of Hong Kong*. His table is the nicest one on the web. He liked the adaptation, but suggested I use www.ptable.com as the credit link. *Sorry for the self-link, but it's relevant to the thread.

By: rossmik

rossmik — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:21:46 -0800

Meh. I prefer the Periodic Table Table.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:21:52 -0800

Great. Elements are fun-damental!

By: quin

quin — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:10:46 -0800

Americium, Fuck yeah!

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:12:28 -0800

That's fucking great, bwg. I'd love to do a Toronto version.

By: Tube

Tube — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:29:04 -0800

Sadly, this table only goes up to number 103, and so leaves out some of the most exotically named elements. My favorite is number 111, now known as Roentgenium, but previously known as unununium.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:38:40 -0800

Not only is that nifty in and of itself, they have versions in a bunch of languages. I looked at the Russian one and discovered some fairly basic words I hadn't known (сера [sera] 'sulphur,' for instance). Thanks!

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:39:30 -0800

Sadly, this table only goes up to number 103 Look closer. It goes to 118.

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:57:05 -0800

This is really neat. It took me 30 sec too long to figure out what the slider does. Temp in K, for those interested in such things. Argh.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:14:52 -0800

Was anyone else expecting this? No?

By: Tube

Tube — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:42:06 -0800

Look closer. It goes to 118. Yes, of course! I blame the actinoids and lanthanoids for messing with my mind... Ununoctium indeed!

By: The Great Big Mulp

The Great Big Mulp — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:22:36 -0800

louche mustachio: ... yes

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:13:54 -0800

Really cool... but the window transparency thing is distracting.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:46:13 -0800

Thanks for the post goodnewsfortheinsane. This is an AWESOME Periodic Table! Wow. The best. About it. One can choose to click the "Names" box, so each box has a name, not only the abbreviation and the atomic weight. Then if one clicks on a box, there's a pop-up window with the Wikipedia entry and tons of information about each element. Images too. And in the upper right, there's a language option with 31 different languages to choose from. It's just kind of fun to see the Table in Afrikaans or Arabic. This is really cool. What a brilliant job they did.

By: Brian B.

Brian B. — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:54:06 -0800

Periodic table of candy

By: dirigibleman

dirigibleman — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:09:36 -0800

The only thing that would make this better is if it were porn.

By: Xere

Xere — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:13:32 -0800

The organic chemistry student in me simultaneously rejoices and despairs in this.

By: quin

quin — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:33:50 -0800

The only thing that would make this better is if it were porn. You seem to misunderstand something dirig.man, for really, really hardcore math people... This is porn. I don't get it either, but I've been told by people in the know, that the experience is, number-wise, both complex and more than a little imaginary. I think she mentioned that strings were involved, but at that point, I assumed we had moved into the realm of S&M, for better or worse. There could have been something about a cat in a box, but I had just tuned out at that point. I mean, come on... I'm not a freak.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:37:42 -0800

I spent two hours reading about ununbium (is it a metal? Is it a gas?) and ununoctium (of which they only found some .. fewmets) and ununennium and unbinilium (which haven't been discovered yet but will be) and I got all excited and taken in and completely forgot to look at porn. And I'm not a chemist or a mathematician. Not even close.

By: bwg

bwg — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:52:17 -0800

I'd love to do a Toronto version. Be the first. (^_^)

By: tickingclock

tickingclock — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:43:04 -0800

This is absolutely fantastic! Thanks!

By: triv

triv — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:30:00 -0800

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By: jamjam

jamjam — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:15:31 -0800

The only thing that would make this better is if it were porn. That would be best as a sendup in the format of an Audubon Society field guide, I think.

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:49:58 -0800

Then if one clicks on a box, there's a pop-up window with the Wikipedia entry and tons of information about each element. Which is nice in theory, but he apparently didn't check it much - clicking on Mercury leads to the disambiguation page for Mercury, not the Mercury (element) article.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:17:32 -0800

DevilsAdvocate, Yesterday I emailed Michael, who made this awesome Periodic Table and told him his work was being praised, well received and discussed in MetaFilter. He wrote back a very nice email, grateful for the positive input. When I looked at the link you provided, it's not to the disambiguation page, it's to the index page for Mercury, offering a lot of information about Mercury, including the link to the element. Because the element is named after the mythological character and so is the planet Mercury, quite possibly Michael thought that might be interesting to anyone clicking on the Periodic link. I'll let him know what you said. I'm sure he'll appreciate your suggestion.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:07:29 -0800

Excellent, nickyskye.

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:43:07 -0800

When I looked at the link you provided, it's not to the disambiguation page, it's to the index page for Mercury, From the bottom of that very page: "This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title." (emph. mine) Also see Disambiguation#Set index articles which describes the difference between a disambiguation page and an index page. By the criteria described there, the linked page is clearly a disambiguation page, not an index page. All the same, thanks for passing along the message.