Periodic Table of Elements

Regardless of whether you are using flash cards, repetition, acronyms and acrostics or other method to learn the chemical elements, one of the things you cannot do without when studying Chemistry 101 is the periodic table.

As the name suggests, the Periodic Table of Elements is a quick reference application that enables you to obtain general information about a chemical element.

The program comes with a clean and well-organized interface that displays the primary groups and their corresponding elements in a similar color for easier identification. A nice feature of the application is that you can highlight the elements that are part of a group by holding the mouse click over it.

While the elements are displayed in the group color, the rest of them are grayed out, a feature can surely come in handy for students with an excellent visual memory. Without denying that it is a nice touch, it would have been useful if the app included a function that allowed you to highlight groups.

In case you want to learn more about an element, then you can do so by clicking on it. The details window that pops up provides you with several types of information about it, such as the date of discovery, the scientist who found it, its primary uses and the sources where it can be obtained from.

You can find out the isotopes and various details that can be useful in class as the number, symbol, atomic weight and radius, electron configuration, oxidation states as well as the melting and boiling points. Considering the type of data it displays, the application seems to be addressing middle-school students or anyone who has just started learning the basics of chemistry.

In the eventuality that you or your children have decided to learn the chemical elements, then Periodic Table of Elements could be the tool to provide you with the info to get started.