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  • obeezy, on 06/02/2008, -11/+58This is a very handy tool. I like out it links out to wikipedia.
  • fudged71, on 06/02/2008, -3/+50I didn't know George Carlin was into this kind of stuff ;)
    • JDoms, on 06/02/2008, -1/+25i'm sure geroge carlin has plenty of experience with chemicals
    • 4d669, on 06/02/2008, -6/+5George Carlin would never support Obama.
      • LMaxey, on 06/02/2008, -1/+5He wouldn't? By all means you've swayed my vote.
        • IAmTomCruise, on 06/03/2008, -2/+0Well George Carlin doesn't vote.
  • WallnutBoy, on 06/02/2008, -11/+210I wish I was smart like you guys.. =(
    • xxTazxx, on 06/02/2008, -4/+16I wish I was smart.
      • Larsonal777, on 06/02/2008, -0/+14but not like us?
      • ElbertF, on 06/02/2008, -0/+11like you guys.. =(
      • sixsidepentagon, on 06/02/2008, -1/+16I wish I had a heart.
        • Acglaphotis, on 06/02/2008, -0/+13Tin man, is that you?
        • Staarfish2, on 06/02/2008, -0/+12I wish I was a little bit taller.
        • zomglolcats, on 06/02/2008, -2/+4If I only had a brain
        • skyroket, on 06/02/2008, -1/+13I wish I was a baller.
        • kingvik, on 06/02/2008, -2/+8I wish I wasn't a virgin. Oh wait, I could fix that; I just have to make sure to yell surprise to avoid legal repercussions.
        • KMartSheriff, on 06/02/2008, -0/+10I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
          and a six four Impala
    • davidrools, on 06/02/2008, -0/+27I wish I WERE smart. It's a subjunctive clause.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive
      • WallnutBoy, on 06/03/2008, -0/+4Damn and I'm taking A-Level English =/ Meh, I made that comment in the middle of the night..

        ..infact right now it's 3am the next day and I'm STILL up.. {sigh}
  • Rockmaninoff, on 06/02/2008, -7/+98Where's Unobtainium?
    • MaddieCakes, on 06/02/2008, -18/+1Hooray for referencing something from last week! (No sarcasm here, actually. Robotic arms are the *****.)
      • cawpin, on 06/02/2008, -1/+9Last week? Yeah, that's the first time Unobtainium was ever used.
      • EvilJelloMan, on 06/02/2008, -0/+7the phrase "unobtanium was made popular on the intertubes much, much earlier than last week. Just because you haven't seen it before doesn't mean it isn't old old news.
      • pazoned, on 06/02/2008, -1/+14Embarassed as I am to know this, I believe "Unobtainium" was first used in the coughcough blockbuster cough film The Core, starring Hilary Swank :-
    • caramba420, on 06/02/2008, -9/+2That's the name of our ***** band, dude!
    • ChzPlz, on 06/02/2008, -2/+8Nintendo has it all - they're using it to make the Wii Fit.
    • LogicBomB, on 06/02/2008, -6/+24The Core? Seriously? Such an awful movie...
      • Larsonal777, on 06/02/2008, -3/+12Yeah... anyone else hate movies that try to be scientific but you just can't stand the huge holes in there explainations?
        • macaddct1984, on 06/02/2008, -1/+16their
        • tech42er, on 06/02/2008, -1/+8*cough*Jurassic Pak*cough*
        • darlyn, on 06/02/2008, -1/+18"THEIR"!!! IT'S SPELLED ***** "THEIR", NOT YOUR *****, HALF-WIT "THERE"!! *****!!
        • Larsonal777, on 06/03/2008, -1/+1holy ***** I know... i bet you were (or still are) one of those people who read through their science books trying to find typos so they could point them out to the class.
        • Magnolit, on 06/03/2008, -0/+2No, but it's ***** annoying that people are unable to spell such basic things
      • Duranman, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1Um, the core was amazing pal.
      • johnsmith3210, on 06/09/2008, -0/+1I agree with both Duranman and Larsonal777. Scientifically speaking, The Core was an awful movie, but at the same time, I like to switch off my sense of logic and just enjoy a Sci-Fi movie with cool special effects.
    • J3EBS, on 06/02/2008, -0/+19I was looking for Adamantium.
    • christhechris, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1Colbert stole it.
    • Scr4tchFury, on 06/03/2008, -0/+2Don't forget Turbonium.
    • DforSpiD, on 06/03/2008, -0/+3What about Jumbonium?
  • DatoeDakari, on 06/02/2008, -2/+13Very nice
  • Evocati, on 06/02/2008, -13/+3H202 + NaOCl ---> H20 + NaCl + 02
  • baylat, on 06/02/2008, -1/+140Now if only I could put this in my phone for exams next week.
    • talonstriker, on 06/02/2008, -2/+50Doesn't the professor allow you to use the periodic table? If (s)he doesn't he's a complete douche.
      I realize that this has a bit more info such as melting/boiling point etc. but that's usually provided as well.
      • TheMachine1, on 06/02/2008, -0/+8Thats what I was thinking you should not be forced to memorise data that can be looked up.
      • stk198323, on 06/02/2008, -0/+12They don't provide the ''guidlines for electronegativity'' or the electron configuration, spin orientation of last electron, etc...

        Also what about a question like: which element is the best electric conductor? It's quite easy to tell it's gold with this table but not from a normal table!

        This is way more then a basic priodic table, this is a condensed reference book...
        • screensnot, on 06/02/2008, -1/+12Silver and copper are better conductors than gold, according to this table.
        • stk198323, on 06/02/2008, -0/+8@screenschot:

          huh yeah sorry got it confused, thanks for pointing out my error I feel stupid now :S
      • tech42er, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1Not all periodic tables have common ox states, let alone all the information in this "table".
    • jabberwolf, on 06/02/2008, -2/+12If you have an iphone, outta luck - no flash !

      Do you think there will be a day where professors will have wifi/phone jamming devices in their rooms for such tests?
      • duckonquack, on 06/02/2008, -2/+4I think my school has a jammer for most of the building (no signal unless your in the outer rooms)
        • FireSlash, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1Pretty sure signal jamming would make the FCC explode in anger, especially in a public school.

          More likely your school is built out of materials that naturally block cellular signals. This still however will not inhibit normal operation of the phone beyond it's data connection, so you could still store the files on your phone and view them from a storage card.
      • Smulse, on 06/02/2008, -0/+4Or they could just not allow phones into the exam room.
    • piwy, on 06/02/2008, -0/+4Isn't there a textbook with all these in it that you're allowed to use?
      In the dutch system we have one called a "Binas" that's basically standard issue for everyone doing even the slightest bit of chemistry or physics.

      All those formulae that are used so much it's stupid to make people remember them are in there. Along with periodic table, melt/boiling points for a crap load of stuff, tables denoting what dissolves in what and lots more stuffs that i can't remember right now.
      • wrathchilde, on 06/03/2008, -1/+1WTF is a "textbook" is that like wikipedia for doofusses?
    • Me1000, on 06/03/2008, -1/+1http://www.dayah.com/periodic/

      should work on your phone...

      I used it for a chem final with my iPhone.
    • PrincesChik, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1Some TI calculators have it built in
  • Emma1989, on 06/02/2008, -15/+2Chemists should know that inside out! :)
  • Myholyleg, on 06/02/2008, -1/+65This one's also good, cause of the "Properties" tab: http://www.dayah.com/periodic/
    • stk198323, on 06/02/2008, -1/+3In fact this submission has all of the information that you can find on the properties tab, but the isotop tab does give some information not found so at least it's interesting.
    • Brick86, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1Yeah I usually use this one because the wikis are right on the same page.
    • kaspertech, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1Denmark, ***** yeah!
  • AngryAngryBrian, on 06/02/2008, -2/+20Molybdenum, Ah to be young again.
    • halobender, on 06/02/2008, -2/+13these chemist jokes are going over my head.
      • tech42er, on 06/02/2008, -0/+3That's not ironic, but FeCl3 is!

        /Fine, it's "ferric chloride"
        //Really, it's "iron(III) chloride"
        ///Don't ruin my joke
    • krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -0/+5molybdenum, i always thought that was the most fun of all the elements to say... molybdemun
  • BigManOnCampus, on 06/02/2008, -4/+22Not just chemists... Materials Scientists.
    Ytrium and Barium, when I mix you with copper and oxygen, you complete me.
    • paperface, on 06/02/2008, -0/+13Sounds like somebody has an unhealthy relationship with superconductors.
  • audiomodder, on 06/02/2008, -25/+65Dubnium
    atomic number: 105
    caution, isn't unstable by itself, but will cause unstability if allowed into iraqium.
    • Leit89, on 06/02/2008, -3/+4I see what you did there
      • eviljolly, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1I would have dugg you down, but I was thinking the same thing myself...

        Well played audiomodder.
    • Sulzer, on 06/02/2008, -3/+63wow, that was a lot of work for a sub-par political joke
    • shakbhaji, on 06/02/2008, -0/+3*Instability
      • krets, on 06/02/2008, -0/+8Although, somehow "unstability" works when making jokes about Dubya.
  • Dumbledorito, on 06/02/2008, -6/+12These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
    And there may be many others, but they haven't been discoverd!

    *shave and a haircut, two bits*
    • holeymoley, on 06/02/2008, -0/+9yay Tom Leher!
    • tech42er, on 06/02/2008, -0/+3Great song! And more have been discovered (synthesized) since then.
  • BoonTobias, on 06/02/2008, -8/+2***** you, where was this when i was in high school ha?
  • Ja50n, on 06/02/2008, -8/+2needs a way to display units for all those values
    • 471776, on 06/02/2008, -1/+4If you were a chemist, you would know the values anyway.
      • skeez86, on 06/03/2008, -0/+2If you were a chemist, you would know that labeling units is fundamental. No matter how obvious they may be.

        (and yes, I'm an Analytical Chemist)
  • supras, on 06/02/2008, -7/+1If only they made this BEFORE I too110 AP chem dammit.
  • galvo, on 06/02/2008, -12/+3Someone needs to make an interactive periodic chart of Famous Boobs
  • friendlyman, on 06/02/2008, -15/+2LOL science stuff I don't understand.
    • cesclaveria, on 06/02/2008, -2/+14a few years ago this I would have never expected a comment like this on digg.
    • fezzasus, on 06/02/2008, -1/+13It's a periodic table. You're going to be in a world of trouble if you fail to grasp this.
      • AngryAngryBrian, on 06/02/2008, -1/+15No he is going to be in a world of "welcome to McDonald's, can I take your order please" if he fails to grasp this.
  • Syphon8, on 06/02/2008, -7/+1Missing so many elements!
  • sjack, on 06/02/2008, -17/+0ha-ha-ha... to be young again

    Sergey
    http://maulnet.sevasjack.info
  • zconrad, on 06/02/2008, -11/+0i could of used this in high school
    • mjbinon, on 06/02/2008, -5/+9Apparently, a grammar guidebook would also have proved useful to you.
  • bionh, on 06/02/2008, -8/+4wow useful thanks
  • felixkunze, on 06/02/2008, -2/+18I love how they have their site stats for all to see. That's going to be an interesting graph once the digg effect hits.
    http://stats3.netriver.net/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?conf ...
    • rxbudian, on 06/02/2008, -0/+4You can already see it on the monthly chart. Today is the second day of the month and the bandwidth is already as high as the other months
  • sweetfeld28, on 06/02/2008, -7/+4Where was this when i was in Chemistry in high school? Very cool though.
  • dodgejon, on 06/02/2008, -9/+8For all the alcoholics http://digg.com/food_drink/Periodic_Table_of_Beer_ ...

    This is the type of periodic table that I actually use.
  • ImmediateAction, on 06/02/2008, -11/+2As the british say, Aluminium. Sorry england, there's no extra "i" in there.
  • JakeyG14, on 06/02/2008, -1/+3In high school (in Britain at least), you get a Data Book which has pretty all that info but just less pretty. It's still a pretty nifty page though, I think I'll bookmark for my physics course, as the two subjects seem to cross paths a lot later on at university level.
  • unrequited, on 06/02/2008, -3/+1I took one look at the URL and though it was meatspin, not touchspin.
    • geobay, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1I saw it was touchspin but I was very hesitant to go there...

  • 8ballblack, on 06/02/2008, -5/+5THANK YOU UPLOADER!!!!!! This is going to help me a lot in university next year :D. THANK YOU
  • VitaminH, on 06/02/2008, -0/+2Damn I wish I had that in college...
  • Haroshia, on 06/02/2008, -4/+4You spin me right round baby right round...
  • mojoface, on 06/02/2008, -1/+2Wow this is so useful. Thanks it's awesome! =]
  • pitchblack16, on 06/02/2008, -6/+0last time i saw that was in high school
  • caramba420, on 06/02/2008, -1/+3The little orbital chart is rad
  • MixMastaKooz, on 06/02/2008, -1/+3Yea, I'm not a chemist (I work at a science center though) this thing is really cool!
  • kirijitsu, on 06/02/2008, -1/+8While we're on the subject of cool periodic tables, I would like to mention one of the most interesting curiosities I've come across - the periodic fractal of elements - http://www.superliminal.com/pfractal.htm
    Basically, the periodic fractal is just the periodic table with one extra constraint: that the line of elements for increasing atomic numbers not be broken, thus resulting in a warped table. The self-similarity characteristic of a fractal immediately becomes apparent, but the most fascinating part is that it makes a prediction for a second series like the actinides/lanthanides below Thorium (Th), or what would be element 122.
  • waydee, on 06/02/2008, -1/+1Damnit I wish I had this last year. Looks to be very handy, bookmarked
  • chemdiva, on 06/02/2008, -1/+2Dugg just for chemistry. Though i think i like the one Myholyleg gave the link to more (dayah.com)
  • rickyx2001, on 06/02/2008, -0/+3dugg for putting flash to a great use for creating an intense data-driven app! (see the Config menu for all the options)
  • blueskydiver76, on 06/02/2008, -8/+16Chuck Norris doesn't believe in the periodic table of elements because it is missing the most important one....


    The Element of Surprise!
  • pumavan, on 06/02/2008, -3/+9Thanks for submitting this right after I finished Chemistry!
    • thesonofdarwin, on 06/02/2008, -0/+3Same.. if I had to walk uphill both ways, or look at twelve different charts to get all the elemental information I needed through my BS in Biochem, everyone else should too!

      Seems a lot of the non-chem people had trouble with orbitals for some reason, so that chart shall help.
  • jerbaker, on 06/02/2008, -6/+2Gratuitous Flash sucks.
  • lead2thehead, on 06/02/2008, -1/+28I use the Oscar Mayer promotional periodic table of elements.... where Bolognium has an atomic weight of "delicious".
    • kelmaster1, on 06/02/2008, -0/+9have the Simpsons seriously covered everything?
    • Intamin, on 06/04/2008, -0/+1Much better joke than the Dubnium one above.
  • nbx909, on 06/02/2008, -1/+3I prefer http://207.207.4.198/pub/flash/28/28.html
  • Anditsonfire, on 06/02/2008, -3/+2http://www.PeriodicTable.com is better.
  • aserer511, on 06/02/2008, -1/+3i am taking orgo next semeser-bookmarked
    • tells, on 06/02/2008, -0/+3This will hardly help you in orgo unless you use it for the orbital configuration.. which you should be able to extract from the periodic table just by looking at the placement of the element anyway. you're much better off understanding the ideas behind electronegativity, atomic radius, electron configuration, etc.. and not focusing on the values like you see here.
    • tweedius, on 06/02/2008, -0/+2All you really have to worry about is C, H, O, N, and a little S except for organometallics. I don't remember even looking at a periodic table during those two semesters. And those pesky halogens.
    • tech42er, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1You need a periodic table taking organic chem? Yeah, because it's so hard to memorize the properties of C, O, H, and N. Save this for the guys who really need it, the inorganic chemists.
  • BaudiIROCZ, on 06/02/2008, -1/+2Of course the iPhone and this weren't around when I was in highschool. I would have done a lot better in chem. : (
    • devila2208, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1I've got the periodic table on my iPhone. It comes in handy when someone needs to know the atomic weight of Plutonium.
  • NerdVicious, on 06/02/2008, -0/+17Very cool periodic table, but for most of you who keep saying they could have used this in their chem courses, this is the same periodic table that you should already have. It just has a lot of extra info on it.

    Besides, if you're in H.S. chem or general college chem, most of the info on it you either shouldn't need, should be given on your current periodic table, be able to look up, or be able to deduce. It probably wouldn't have helped your grade to much. Chemistry isn't just memorizing facts off of the periodic table.
  • Portagine, on 06/02/2008, -0/+12This is an honest question, maybe some of you might know, but I see the last elements discovered on that list came out in 1994 (elements 110 and 111). Are we actively looking for any more elements, or are these things we just seem to happen upon?

    Sincerely,
    Liberal Arts curriculum grad
    • pingwax, on 06/02/2008, -0/+8Here is a completely uninformed answer to muddy the waters.

      I think, and I emphasize that I am probably wrong, that new elements can be predicted to exist based on theory, but I aren't added to the periodic table until they are demonstrated to actually exist, however briefly. I think the exception to this is when gaps in the periodic table are created by elements that have been discovered. For example, element 118 has been synthesized, so element 117 (which has not been synthesized or observed in nature) is assumed to be able to exist, even though we haven't actually observed it yet.

      So, to some extent, scientists may know what elements to look for based on theory and may be able to conduct experiments specifically to try and synthesize them, there probably are quiet a few situations where they are observed accidentally during other experiments.
    • andymc1989, on 06/02/2008, -0/+7All the way up to 118 (except 117) has been made, and they're still trying to go further.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table_%28sta ...

      Theoretically from element 138 and above, some of the electrons would have to go faster than the speed of light, so that's probably as high as it could possibly go.
      • tech42er, on 06/02/2008, -0/+2I never knew that (until I saw this thread). But yeah, we'll probably have to stop at 137 or rewrite the rules of physics.
        • karmabandit, on 06/04/2008, -0/+0And you still don't know it, since that's a bunch of crap. The stability of the atoms comes from the nucleus-- the electrons have nothing to do with it.

          If you could get a stable nucleus with >137 atomic number, the electrons would happily organize themselves around it, just as with any other atomic number. Whoever told andymc1989 that was confused-- and probably using a very very old model of atoms from the early 1900s, where electrons are actual little particles whizzing around the nuclei. We have much better models now that don't require ridiculous thing like faster-than-light particles.
    • encumbent, on 06/03/2008, -0/+3Basically the element must exist long enough to be characterised.. Electrons can continually be stuffed into a nuclei but it becomes unstable and radioactively decays to a more stable configuration. The periodic table is now at the point that any bigger atoms exist for mere fractions of a second - making them superfluous..
    • bigpj, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1I believe the goal is to find a second nuclear "island of stability", Iron 56 being the first
  • kelmaster1, on 06/02/2008, -0/+9Very comprehensive, I like the orbital configuration interactive chart. Someone spent a lot of time on this. Dugg and Bookmarked.
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