Maybe your love of Chemistry will bloom more after you look at these periodic tables?
150 years ago, the Siberian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev gave science a priceless gift: a completely new version of the periodic table of chemical elements, the first people to see it were scientists. Studied at the Russian Chemistry Council.
He arranged the elements in a table, in order of increasing atomic number, forming a detailed list of each element that made up the Universe. It’s been a decade and a half since Mendeleev devised the periodic table, laying a solid foundation for chemistry.
But he was not the first to wish to arrange the elements in a logical table. Before Mendeleev, many scientists tried to arrange the 63 elements (known to science at the time) into an easily graspable combination, divided into individual properties.
Elemental sorting efforts have given us tables like these.
The new periodic table includes nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts), and oganesson (Og) in the seventh row.
This is the original periodic table, with the elements arranged according to the atomic number of each substance, based in part on the chemical properties of the substances.
Mendeleev’s version does not have as many elements as the table above, but he does leave room for future generations to add elements. He predicted properties of elements that science had yet to discover at that time.
The next generation proved most of Mendeleev’s predictions correct.
This periodic table was designed in 2006 by Valery Tsimmerman. This is the most different table out of all the examples that appear in this article.
Instead of ordering by atomic number, this ADOMAH periodic table is based on the 4 quantum numbers of electrons – these 4 numbers are used to describe the position and motion of electrons in an atom. This idea has been worked on before by Charles Janet, an engineer and biologist.
The above tower is full of practical value, but the vortex periodic table is more inclined towards aesthetics. This is the product of chemist Theodor Benfey, created in 1964.
At the center of the periodic table is hydrogen, then spiraling out in order of atomic number. This table also has space for the elements “super actinide – superactinide” , which has not been discovered by science.
This periodic table is very special: it has no hydrogen or helium.
This periodic table is very special: it has no hydrogen or helium. The teal blue panel section on the back contains alkali metals on the front, alkaline earth metals on the back. The other two “petals” contain other elements of the periodic table, divided according to their properties.
This is the most “dumpling” periodic table of all the examples mentioned, created by James Franklin Hyde in 1975.
Hyde himself is a scientist working with silicon compounds, so he placed silicon in the center of the board solemnly, then used seams to highlight how silicon connects to the rest of the elements in the panel.
But the board still starts at hydrogen – at the center of the circle to the right, before swirling outward to reach the other elements. Each element cluster has a distinct color to highlight their relationship to each other.