Thursday, October 23, 2008

Periodic Table Live!

Periodic Table Live! allows you to explore a broad range of information about the elements, their reactions, their properties, their structures and their histories.

Chemical Education Digital Library (ChemEd DL) recently developed a noteworthy resource “Periodic Table Live!”. It allows you to explore a broad range of information about the elements, their reactions, their properties, their structures and their histories.

You can see pictures, view videos of reactions, and play around with 3-dimensional crystal structure(s) of elements. An additional function of the periodic table is its ability to chart and sort. You can choose a certain property (or many properties) of a selection of elements, and see how they compare based on where the element is on the periodic table. Periodic Table Live! is useful way to teach students about periodic trends.

Periodic Table Live can be accessed at: http://chemeddl.org/collections/ptl/index.html

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