Instrument online · 118 elements indexed

Everything matter
is made of,
in one instrument.

A periodic table you can actually interrogate. Recolour all 118 elements by any property, scrub the temperature and watch them melt, open a real quantum orbital in 3D, and run the calculations chemistry homework actually needs.

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6 C Carbon
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The main instrument

Recolour the table by whatever you are studying

The grid below is live. Switch the colour channel to see a periodic trend appear across the whole table at once — then drag the temperature to watch the elements melt and boil in order.

293 K

Why the table has a shape

The periodic law, plotted

Mendeleev arranged the elements by weight and noticed the properties repeated. Plot any property against atomic number and you can see it: the same pattern, once per row, forever.

Peaks: noble gasesTroughs: alkali metals

From the archive

Every gram of your body contains roughly 6×10²² hydrogen atoms, most of them older than the Sun.

Start with the one you are stuck on.

Hit CtrlK anywhere on the site and type a name, a symbol, an atomic number, or something vague like “radioactive”.

Browse the table