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  1. 3D Table is Required by Plekto · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Six Atoms of Element 117 Produced

    http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/03/05/163226/First-Creation-of-Anti-Strange-Hypernuclei

    This was on Slashdot a few weeks ago. And it shows us that the periodic table is without a doubt in need of a major revision from what we've always assumed to be correct.

    http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt.html
    Dozens of (the major) alternate versions are listed here as well. I personally like the Dufour Periodictree myself, as it has a nice symmetry to it that's similar to the circular one.

  2. This is a little better, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on New Graphical Representation of the Periodic Table

    my chemistry teacher first showed me this. I found it on the net today. : http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/PS2.jpg

  3. Re:Call me a cynic.. by buchner.johannes · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Graphical Representation of the Periodic Table

    In whatever way you present it, natures elements are messed up ;-)

    This link lists pretty much all the tables:
    http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt.html

    Just wow. I didn't see yet how they account for the overlap between d/p/s/f.

  4. Re:not new by Thoguth · · Score: 2, Informative · on New Graphical Representation of the Periodic Table

    The really interesting table on that site is this one:
    http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php?PT_id=35
    Which is labeled "Wikipedia table" and dated 2006 ... Did Mohd rip off Wikipedia?

    Fortunately for him, wikipedia's history traces back to this revision which was apparently made by Mohd Abubuakr himself, back in August 2006. He was in school at the time, at Jawaharlal Nehru Tech. According to his LinkedIn profile, he's not so much a green field researcher as he is a techie ... Performance and Security consulting. The article is a little misleading ... makes it sound like MS research has a skunk works in Hyderabad trying to invent a new periodic table.

    His blog is cute too. A little emo, a little egotistical, but seems like a nice guy. I wonder what his /. handle is.

  5. I've seen this before somewhere... by tomatoguy · · Score: 2, Informative · on New Graphical Representation of the Periodic Table
    In high-school chemistry I saw a chart like this, though arranged to accommodate the rare earths as their own separate but related group. It was nerd art for me - each element was assigned a shade of blue or red to indicate pH. I ordered two and they came with additional materials explaining the new chart. The charts are packed away, but I just looked up the hand-outs and tried to Google but found nothing. But, one of the had-outs is a reprint of a write-up in Chemistry magazine of September 1976. It was created by James Franklin Hyde, who is apparently the Father of Silicones acording to Wikipedia.

    Oh, here's a link I just found to the chart http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php?PT_id=164

    For the Internet Database of Periodic Tables, see http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php?Button=Spiral+Formulations

  6. I've seen this before somewhere... by tomatoguy · · Score: 2, Informative · on New Graphical Representation of the Periodic Table
    In high-school chemistry I saw a chart like this, though arranged to accommodate the rare earths as their own separate but related group. It was nerd art for me - each element was assigned a shade of blue or red to indicate pH. I ordered two and they came with additional materials explaining the new chart. The charts are packed away, but I just looked up the hand-outs and tried to Google but found nothing. But, one of the had-outs is a reprint of a write-up in Chemistry magazine of September 1976. It was created by James Franklin Hyde, who is apparently the Father of Silicones acording to Wikipedia.

    Oh, here's a link I just found to the chart http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php?PT_id=164

    For the Internet Database of Periodic Tables, see http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php?Button=Spiral+Formulations

  7. Novelty is a handicap by Lucent · · Score: 1, Insightful · on New Graphical Representation of the Periodic Table

    Being weird is an automatic handicap. The current layout provides a wealth of data in a grid, something that can be represented in the simplest of data structures. If you're going to switch to circular and have strange shapes and free-floating elements, you need to make up for all the complexity you've added by showing significantly more correlation. This does not in the least. If you want to see alternative layouts that really give the current a run for its money, check out Stowe's.

  8. Novelty is a handicap by Lucent · · Score: 1, Insightful · on New Graphical Representation of the Periodic Table

    Being weird is an automatic handicap. The current layout provides a wealth of data in a grid, something that can be represented in the simplest of data structures. If you're going to switch to circular and have strange shapes and free-floating elements, you need to make up for all the complexity you've added by showing significantly more correlation. This does not in the least. If you want to see alternative layouts that really give the current a run for its money, check out Stowe's.

  9. Re:not new by MaggieL · · Score: 3, Informative · on New Graphical Representation of the Periodic Table

    Yeah, but remeber, it's from Microsoft Research. They're innovators, dammit!

    Not only have the patented the round table, they've also patented the time machine they're going to use to back in time and sue Erdmann and Mendeleev.

    And then King Arthur.

    Database of periodic tables:
    http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php?PT_id=167

  10. Site Full of Periodic Tables by Jack9 · · Score: 5, Informative · on New Graphical Representation of the Periodic Table

    Another periodic table, is not news.
    Someone should have already linked one of the periodic table databases like:

    http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php