[HN Gopher] Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words
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Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words
Author : bilsbie
Score : 102 points
Date : 2024-05-26 13:10 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (elements.wlonk.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (elements.wlonk.com)
| lordgrenville wrote:
| Great idea, and I'd love to buy it - if only it weren't in Comic
| Sans!
| lupire wrote:
| Download the PDF and change the font.
| lordgrenville wrote:
| Change the font of a PDF without the source? Sure buddy, just
| give me a research team and five years.
|
| Edit: Whoops, apparently this is trivial. TIL.
| nilstycho wrote:
| The PDF has Illustrator Editing Capabilities, so it can be
| easily edited in Illustrator.
| enriquto wrote:
| pdf2ps a.pdf vim a.ps # take a look at
| it, maybe you see how the font is called cat a.ps |
| sed 's/Comic Sans/Times/g' > b.ps # may be slightly more
| complex ps2pdf b.ps
| nilstycho wrote:
| Keith is a doodler/amateur cartoonist, and this periodic take
| is in that style, so the font is deliberate. He was happy to
| see Fabiola Gianotti's announcement of the discovery of the
| Higgs boson in Comic Sans.
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| Also, it's really Comic Relief, as he wanted it to be OFL.
|
| https://elements.wlonk.com/Dev/MakingDerivativeWorks.htm
| mixmastamyk wrote:
| Doesn't seem to be Comic Sans, it's a bit more regular. Some
| other comic-like font perhaps.
| gregd wrote:
| These are actually amazing. I'm such a visual learner and these
| would have helped my high school years so much!
| eleveriven wrote:
| Same here. Visual learning is the answer for me
| smitty1e wrote:
| Carbon has a bird and phosphorus a skeleton?
|
| Maybe switch those, given the recent efforts to turn carbon into
| some symbol of environmental death.
| saagarjha wrote:
| That's carbon dioxide you're thinking of. And it's not a symbol
| of environmental death, it's people who emit excess amounts of
| it. But that's not a very good symbol for an ecological
| process, though it's a fine one for representing carbon.
| smitty1e wrote:
| True enough, except that's not the name of the page
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_price
| bromuro wrote:
| I think the page they mean is:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-based_life
| xeonmc wrote:
| I wish there is a version of the element cards and table that
| features mainly the electronic structures. There is a separate
| orbitals table, but I'd rather have electron configurations in
| diagram form on the individual elements instead.
|
| On a side note, the following website is an amazing visualization
| for all of the electron orbital shapes:
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| https://winter.group.shef.ac.uk/orbitron/
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| Click on the individual orbital entries, and at the top of each
| page there is a "Dots!" tab that lets you interact with density
| clouds in 3D.
| nilstycho wrote:
| You might be interested in the orbitals laser crystal
| sculptures that he designed with Bathsheba.
|
| https://bathsheba.com/crystal/orbitals/
| BenoitP wrote:
| There's the Stowe Janey Scerri Table.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stowe-Janet-Scerri_Peri...
| enslavedrobot wrote:
| It blew my mind when I found out orbitals can be thought of as
| harmonic modes of a sphere.
|
| Sad that it took until 4th year quantum chemistry to find that
| out.
| Lucent wrote:
| https://ptable.com/#Electrons/HOAO
|
| Shows the highest occupied atomic orbital in full 3D you can
| rotate. Select any slot in the Hund diagram to see that orbital
| instead.
| mo_42 wrote:
| Very nice. Printed it will be a gift for (your) children. I wish
| I had gotten something like this.
| dudeinjapan wrote:
| I prefer Terrence Howard's version. This table doesn't even label
| the musical key of each element.
| robblbobbl wrote:
| Cool guide
| Beijinger wrote:
| Spark Plugs for Iridium? Never hear or it. But they seem to exit:
| https://www.autozone.com/diy/spark-plugs/iridium-vs-platinum...
|
| Platinum for Labware? Really? The world would look very different
| without Platinum or Platinum group metals. Start with the Oswald
| Process (Nitric acid, fertilizer), car catalysts, hydration of
| carbons, cracking, catalysts for a gazillion chemical reactions.
| nilstycho wrote:
| "Catalyst, pollution control, petroleum cracking, and
| processing fats" are already listed for platinum. There's an
| attempt to not make a lot of duplicate uses, and palladium
| already has pollution control illustrated. Also some uses are
| harder to illustrate than others.
| lovegrenoble wrote:
| Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev could be quite proud of his
| periodic table of elements in pictures )
| dev_tty01 wrote:
| Stone, sand, and soil for Silicon? No mention of integrated
| circuits, the single most impactful tech in recent history?
| Meanwhile, Germanium, gets the semiconductor electronics mention.
| Yes, Germanium is used in certain IC processes, but Silicon has
| orders of magnitudes more use in semiconductor electronics. Seems
| like an extremely odd choice to relegate Silicon to nothing more
| than stone, sand, and soil.
| windowshopping wrote:
| I'm sorry but this seems incredibly stupid to me. Bicycles for
| scandium? What? Only some bicycles use that, and then it's only
| one component among many. Thinking of a bicycle in relation to
| scandium is not useful or instructive in any way and tells you
| literally nothing about scandium. The same goes for most of this
| somewhat ridiculous graphic.
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