[HN Gopher] Interactive Periodic Table
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Interactive Periodic Table
Author : solarized
Score : 86 points
Date : 2021-06-27 11:13 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (ptable.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (ptable.com)
| shadilay wrote:
| For some reason no one has done a periodic table showing trends
| in periodicity, weight, size, electronegativity etc.
| Lucent wrote:
| Select any property to see trends visualized in color. Select
| the color boxes next to Minimum/Maximum to customize those
| colors.
| shadilay wrote:
| Nice work! If you added tables for common cations, polyatomic
| anions, acids and solvation rules it would cover most of my
| gen chem memory items.
| marto1 wrote:
| Wow. Super cool. I really liked the temperature slider.
| krylon wrote:
| This is really, really cool! Wish I had had this back in
| chemistry class.
| solarized wrote:
| I liked Compounds features so much. Playing alchemy for a real.
| lahoda-xyz wrote:
| human universe is not so hot. please log scale toward smaller
| values.
| jacksonkmarley wrote:
| definitely hard to get to STP or thereabouts with fat fingers
| and small phone screen.
| gus_massa wrote:
| I'm not sure if using a log scale is the best choice, because
| it will give too much space to the neighborhood of 0K, and I
| guess people is more interested in the 0degC 100degC range (or
| -50degC -200degC range?). Perhaps a scale like x^(1/2) or other
| exponent would be better.
| sandruso wrote:
| This thing could be so helpful during my chemistry classes. We
| need more of this. Great job!
|
| I also like how you can select isotopes in Isotopes tab in
| Z-axis.
| Lucent wrote:
| This is mine. I spent quarantine greatly upgrading it from its
| previous design from roughly 2007 (old.ptable.com) which itself
| was a great upgrade to how it looked in 1997 (https://web.archive
| .org/web/19990208231647/http://www.dayah....). It uses no
| frameworks or libraries and has a payload size of ~64K if you use
| an ad/tracker blocker, and that includes all the property data
| and WebGL orbitals rendered from the Schrodinger equation on the
| Electrons tab. Fully keyboard accessible with arrows/tabs. One
| controversial feature is fit-to-window that uses some elaborate
| CSS math (no JS) to keep the size fixed as you switch from topbar
| to sidebar or turn Wide on/off.
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| A lot of functionality is hidden, which is why I have the
| 100-second demo video: https://ptable.com/demo. Would love to
| hear impressions or feedback as staring at it for months has
| blinded me to first impressions/annoyances.
| tdy721 wrote:
| Good work! This has been my go to for a long time. Like early
| oughts.
|
| Only thing I can think to ask for is a table of the isotopes!
| Lucent wrote:
| Thanks for the long-term support. Do you consider the click-
| to-fan out isotopes now to be too clumsy for your use?
| oxapentane wrote:
| Sorry to barge in into the thread, but regarding the
| isotopes with current pop-out style: As a person who lately
| started collaborating with NMR people I think it will be
| nice if one can filter them by half-life/abundance (e.g. to
| filter out anything that has natural abundance of 0 or
| below x), and then look at magnetic/quadrupole moment to
| see if resonance people can measure it).
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| But anyways, thanks for all the work you've done! I've been
| using it daily for the past 10-11 years, it is a great
| resource :D
| Lucent wrote:
| Wow, over a decade! I'm sure you have much feedback to
| offer. You've convinced me to change the way search works
| with fanned isotopes. Currently, searching for "infinity"
| under half-life will show stable elements or ">0" under
| abundance will show non-zero values by dimming those
| isotopes. Instead, I'll have it filter them out entirely
| rather than adjusting opacity.
| jacksonkmarley wrote:
| Android -> Does cool stuff in chrome, does nothing in edge.
| Lucent wrote:
| I believe the non-beta Android Edge still uses EdgeHTML which
| doesn't support optional chaining and I abandoned support for
| as it's now 0.08% of my users. Try out the beta?
| jacksonkmarley wrote:
| haha, nah easier to just use it on chrome, I only have both
| so I can stay logged-in to different accounts without
| hassles. Although I think edge performed marginally better
| on my low spec phone when I tested it at one point.
| oleganza wrote:
| Check out also a beautiful periodic table constructor from Moscow
| that won IF design award: https://periodic.artlebedev.ru
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| (About the project: https://www.artlebedev.com/mendeleev-table/)
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