Chemical Education Today
Volume 85: Celebrating Journal Milestones
The New Periodic Table Live! Return of an All-Time Favorite
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We have brought back everyone’s favorite program: Periodic Table Live! It has seen many improvements while retaining the sterling qualities that all of us relied on. (This is the latest version of a computerized periodic table that began with KC? Discoverer in the mid-1980s and has grown through several transformations ever since.) Perhaps best of all, the current version is available free to everyone from the JCE Online and the ChemEd Digital Library at http://www.chemeddl.org/collections/ptl/.
As you use Periodic Table Live!, we encourage you to contribute additional information about your favorite elements via the ChemEd DL Wiki at http://wiki.chemeddl.org. (Go to the Collections section of the Wiki, click on Periodic Table Live!)
The Periodic Table Live! is awesome! Maria McLennan, Rochester, Michigan
Explore the periodic table—video, data, structures, … Glossary: view brief definitions of chemical and scientific terms.
Periodic Table: click on a symbol to navigate to an element.
Physical and Atomic Properties: find density, atomic and ionic radii, and more. Sources of data are cited.
Crystal: the 3-D JMol image can be rotated and displayed as ball-and-stick or space-filling.
Description: learn about the discovery of each element, the ore from which it is obtained, how its name was determined, its reactions, its uses, and much more.
Chart/Sort: make a table, make a graph, or sort numeric data.
Videos: see reactions of the element with air, water, acids, and bases—if the element reacts.
Ready to explore? Go to http://www.chemeddl.org/collections/ptl/
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Journal of Chemical Education • Vol. 85 No. 1 January 2008 • www.JCE.DivCHED.org • © Division of Chemical Education
