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Periodic Table Table
Ed Pegg Jr writes "Theo Gray, a co-creator of Mathematica, was originally a chemist. Needing a conference table, he created a Periodic Table using a variety of woods." It seems Theo is missing some elements for the table, in case you have any spare europium (in a proper container, of course) lying about. This isn't Theo's first piece of furniture. It looks like he has left a few spots for new elements, and it is nicely modular, in the event an element is found not to exist.
Elementary.
It's too square to be a real periodic table, so there's some fudging in it as well.
OS/2 - because choice is a terrible thing to waste.
This would be great for science class.
...stupidium.
honestly, this is a pretty lame project. if you can't make a beowulf cluster out of it, i dont want to hear about it.
MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
Is someone's kitchen or bathroom tiled in ceramic tiles each containing an element.
I can see it now "I WILL WALK OVER YOU LEAD!"
"How much wood would wood glue glue if wood glue could glue wood?" -Vivre Draco
"I'm sure in 1985 Plutonium can be bought in every corner drug store, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by."
For optimal effect you must use the right plancks or else your table may not work correctly with present theories regarding quantum mechanics.
And wouldnt it be mostly simply blocks of glass with invisible gas inside?
am constructing a Periodic Table, and i am just short of a few elemnets, Au and Ag, so if anybody has any spare, can they send them to me. Perferably in an appropriate conatiner, say a large truck.
Here we can see Theo Gray hard at work.
..... whose half life is measured in seconds. The heavy artifical ones.
Needing a conference table, he created a Periodic Table
Then wood this be a meta-table?
*ducks*
Justin
I can see it now...
"Alright!! Who left their glass on Niobium without a coaster?!"
Producer: NEXT!!
Ralph Wiggum: Chicken necks
No, not those elements.
/temperature controled place to store this thing. Pieces that combine dissimaler woods don't tend to last very long due to diffrent rates of expansion/contraction when they are exposed to temperature and humidity changes. They tend to break along the seems.
I hope he has a humidity
That's why you never securely bolt down butcher-block. You just drill an oversized hole and let it float on the stand.
I dont think he will ever get any elemental Francium. If i remember back to high school it is EXTREEEEEEEEEEMELY rare because it oxidises (i think thats chemisteese for burns) in sunlight.
HANG ON
all geeks are made of Francium...we burn in sunlight.
So...whos gunna send him a finger?
The Borg assimilated my race & all I got was this lousy T-shirt
If you put your plate on highly radioactive elements, your food will stay warm.
Don't listen to him, he's trying to fool you into sending him GOLD!!!! Don't fall for it!
As a chemist, I've always prided myself as having the most unusual periodic table - I wear only boxer shorts that have the periodic table printed all over them (my collegues no longer ask me for reference information due to my undressing to look up values too many times...). This table though does me one better - bravo! I shall now have to find an even geekier chic periodic table - the guantlet has been thrown, I accept the challenge!
It's a great way to get kids to learn about science, but is anyone else thinking "E-Z Bake Meth Lab"?
I hate those losers who can't come up with a decent sig. Oh, wait...
You could also have them make a bi-level sort of table. Just take the two rows and attach them on little dowels to the top of the table at a 45 degree angle so they come up and out. You could set plants on that part maybe. Put some glowing Thinkgeek light strips (or flourescent lights) in the little cubbies, pretend there are rare earths in there, and scare the neighborhood kids. Be a real safe place to hide your stash I bet. Every neighborhood has the haunted house/spooky old man thing. This guy has the glowing radioactive table. "Trick or Treat? Reach in there for your candy Billy..."
'Course the table is incredibly cool without my Monday morning engineering. Well done.
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
this this table table stuff stuff sounds sounds really really funny funny to to me me. he he he he. i i had had a a fine fine laugh laughe :) :).
13 DD. I'm the fat kid.
I hate those losers who can't come up with a decent sig. Oh, wait...
... I had some bump n grind scheduled on our multiplication table tonight. see you!
I'll try that.
I tried making a mandelbrot set table once.
I gave up because it seemed like there was always an endless amount of detail work left to do.
But then again, I could be wrong.
...I'm getting a periodic woody. Geddit?
This week's installment:
stay tuned next week for: Helium
Visit any jewler. Don't forget your VISA card.
The truth shall set you free!
When do these appear on ThinkGeek?
Poor man...the kid will mix all the elements ....
Mmmm, Bohrium became kinda gren'ish.....Oh shit, that's plutonium!
Nice table...nicely made.
what anyone else says, but to make a FUCKING BADASS table like those two takes a woodworking skill on a high level. something most of us will never get. I would love to be able to make something like that, but I am limited to case mods and such things.
if you want "No More Hiroshimas" then I say "You First. No More Pearl Harbors."
He was a chemist! - no wonder Mathematica was the only piece of software that I still couldn't figure out how to operate after 10 minutes of tinkering with it. (hey, in my book, if it fails the 10 minute test, it's in dire need of a UI rewrite). ./cwide
soul daddies in a firewire tumble dryer
But have they been jerkied like my goat scrotums??? hahaha thats where the GENIUS part comes in.
I did not find any details how he stores hazardous elments. Where does he put elements like Plutonium?
I feel that the lifetime of the table-table might be shorter than the decay time of some of the hazardous elements.
...gets the "uranium seat" (it's just a name son, don't worry about it)
Oh, I'm sorry, I seemed to have left my container in Europe.
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when some other esteemed editor reposts this, it'll be the Periodic Periodic Table Table story, and I will be even happier. ;^)
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That there is one swank piece of craftsmanship. I'll be sending some spare Strontium pronto :O) It is truly gratifying to see so much love lathered on a table.
Are there any occasional elements out there?
I'd like an occasional table...
From my Autobiography - "Lifestyles of the Sad and Desperate"...
Go to Sweden, and the tiny, tiny village Ytterby some 100 km N of Stockholm. There you will, no doubt why, find amongst other elements Ytterbium, Terbium and Yttrium.
As the HSV slogan goes 'I Just Want One'
That is one seriously cool piece of furniture.
-- Karma Karma Karma Karma, Karma Chameleon - Boy George
I really don't like my periodic table, but I can't afford one that's around all the time, so periodic will have to do.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Here's what you need to do:
(1) Obtain fifth of Jim Beam.
(2) Obtain two-liter of Code Red.
(3) Obtain Bluemchen CDs.
(4) Mix (1) and (2).
(5) Drink (4) whilst listening to (3).
(6) Enjoy.
You may thank me later.
A huge bunch of kudos to the first person to imagemap that perodic table table to link to the actual element.
Nice to see temperatures expressed in C; much better than F. Should have been K, however.
When did Slashdot turn into a woodwork site? Or maybe this was just a step in your way to minimize global losses resulting from Slashdot effects?
I know, my karma is soon below zero, but Hello!
...so it can't be that bad.
This guy's family lived in South Australia, where a fair chunk of Australia's uranium exports come from. His father worked for one of the mines. My friend was a chemistry nerd, and he made up his mind one day to turn some uranium-bearing ore into yellowcake (uranium oxide, a stage in the purification process). Purely out of scientific curiousity. It's about twice as radioactive as depleted uranium, so I wouldn't walk around with it in my pants pocket, but it's not going to kill you in a hurry. 20 years on, it didn't seem to harm my friend that much. The wooden lid to the container on the 'table' would stop any alphas, and most of the betas. I wouldn't worry about it.
Sodium, flourine, or even phosphorus, on the other hand...
"Hey, nice table!"
"Thanks, it took me several w... OH JESUS CHRIST NO, DON'T OPEN THAT!"
(screaming and choking as they both inhale florine gas)
(dying breath): "Just...wanted...to...be...thorough.."
The carvings are cool though, perhaps for the transparent version could have small metal plaques underneath each one or something?
Have a poke around in a country-side antiques place in the North American mid-west or somewhere similarly, um, oblivious to such concerns.
It's usually called "Depression Glass" since a lot of it was made in the 1930's.
I had a piece for the longest time and it really is a pretty yellow colour. Not particularly radioactive either...
..... whose half life is measured in seconds. The heavy artifical ones.
:-)
After reading the original article I looked up the periodical table. I decided to find out which element officially has the highest Atomic Number. Ununbium has an atomic number of 112, but more intrestingly has a half-life of 240 microseconds.
Picture him removing the lid to show a friend (both in Radiation suits) - "It was here a second ago"
Anybody got any ideas where to get some from?
"Now, if I may digress momentarily from the mainstream of this evening's symposium, I'd like to sing a song which is completely pointless, but is something which I picked up during my career as a scientist. This may prove useful to some of you some day, perhaps, in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances. It's simply the names of the chemical elements set to a possibly recognizable tune. "
The elements
Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
Even better, it says "see Uranus"! Folk were queer back in the 20th...
use constant PERL_IS_BROKEN => $] >= 5.006;
...in the event an element is found not to exist
The periodic table is build in such a way that no "non-existing" will be missed. The table is like a matrix mapping the content of the atom core. (Protons and neutrons). And the matrix would have holes if elements were missing.
When the table was first constructed, the discovery of several elements was actually missing, as appeared as holes in the table. The chemist was hunting for these atoms, and all the holes have been found today - proving the concept of the table.
Very heavy atoms may be very unstable and appear in the end of the table. To this "list" new atoms may be added, when they are "found" (constructed is a better word). But these atoms are so unstable due to their size that they will never be found in nature and can defiantly not be placed physically in the table, as they can only exist in microseconds.
-:) Oh no - not again.
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The triangle table kicks ass also! I sooo wish I could spend my whole life working on projects like this. Not tables, per se, but any little fanciful project I dream up. For instance, a lego statue of Seven of Nine.... oh god, its true what the bullies said. I AM a loser. I actually think a periodic table table is clever and cool!
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> It seems Theo is missing some elements for the table, in case you have any spare europium (in a proper container, of course) lying about.
If he doesn't find europium can't he just take someone elses?
...can you hum it to Gilbert and Sullivan?
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
This reminds me of Cosmo Kramer's coffee table book about coffee tables that folds out to become a coffee table.
Miko O'Sullivan
You can find Americium inside ionizing-type smoke detectors. For Uranium and Plutonium you had best speak Russian well :)
The left side of the table is nice and stable, but the right side keeps wanting to explode. Maybe he should combine some of the elements on the right side to stabilize it.
Miko O'Sullivan
The youngsters here might appreciate being reminded that it was the English longbow which caused the death of the knight in shining armor. This large bow was easily able to penetrate armor, so a column of armored fighters on horseback became a large target rather than the medieval equivalent of a tank.
("on horseback" used instead of "cavalry" because the latter is based on a philosophy of quick mobility, and an armored horse can only briefly be quick or mobile)
Do we all know what happens when the condensed water from a glass hits Sodium?
The table itself is one large piece. The different types of wood are in the labeled tiles, which are not glued to the top. The tiles have plenty of room to expand and are free to do so.
Hmm.. surprise, the table could be a Transformer, spread fear, work with ruthless efficiency and be catholic, would that work?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
A Nobel prize to the first person that makes the actual element teleport in when the appropriate link is clicked.
ThinkGeek should pick up on this idea. I'd buy one. Especially if the block were molded into a suitably geeky shape. A 3 cm tall Tux that masses half a kg would be pretty cool to have on one's desk.
Constitutionally Correct
"Hey! You can't eat on the table! That's the *periodic* table!"
- Quote from Dr. Strangetable
"Hello, operator? Yes, I'd like a 3cm length of 4cm diameter tungsten wire. Yes, I'll hold. Thank you!"
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Chobham armour, thanks to our british friends, is made of multiple layers of treated steal, dead spaces, ceramics, and titanium composites.
DU is used for armour piercing rounds, typically SABOT style rounds (same size case and amount of powder pushing out a needle instead of a 120MM shell - very high velocity, turns to plasma on impact) as well as more conventional AP styles. The M1 (and derivitives) as well as the Challenger, T80/94/TDX2, AMX MBT, and dozens of others high end modern battle tanks utilize DU rounds for tank on tank combat. It's relatively innefective against soft targets how ever (they just blast through one side and out the other... worse problem is the vacume created in sealed NBC capable vehicles like the Bradley).
1 mole of Americium = 1.101 moles of Europium
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If you moderate this, then your children will be next.
All I can say is that Theodore Gray is a genius. A career in chemistry, inventing Mathematica, and now building this Periodic Table...all while still a toddler! I predict big things for this little guy once he hits puberty.
CowboyNealium (Cn)?
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. - Tennessee Williams
I think if it were me, I would have filled in the huge gaps at the top with blank squares to make it have a nice shape so that it could be used in a dining room or something.. all that work for an oddly shaped table makes it hard to show off well.
People who make such lame jokes should be breathing some HCN.
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If you moderate this, then your children will be next.
cLive ;-)
-- Trinity in high heels carrying a whip: The donimatrix - there is no spoonerism
...on the right side of the table. IIRC, the elements with one or two electrons missing from their outer orbital fields (the two columns to the left of the noble gases) can react pretty violently with water. Specifically, the ones toward the top of the table (with s or p orbitals as their outermost orbitals) will react the most violently. Be gentle if I am wrong, IANAC.
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Mathematica was, in large part, developed at UofIL (Urbana-Champaign) and I was one of the guinea pigs for using it to teach Calculus. (It's worth pointing out that some guy named Mark Anderson, or something, who lived down the hall from me in Hopkins residence hall was writing some linking-pictures-over-the-internet program called Mosaic, or someting, at the same time) ;^)
Anyway, anyone who took the intro to Chemistry class at Urbana-Champaign (including my dad) spent a lot of time staring at the 8ft x 20ft (2.4m x 6.0m) periodic table in the big Chem building lecture hall. Well, some idiot decided to pull it off the wall and throw it out! Luckily, my housemates rescued it and we screwed it to the wall of our house over the stairs that led up to the second floor. It is/was at the northeast corner of California and Busey in Urbana.
I couldn't find non-alloy W, but maybe Tungsten Carbide is good enough? These guys also have plenty of other metals in various forms, like diamond plate or titanium sheets, for when you hunger for other materials.
Theo is missing some elements for the table, in case you have any spare europium (in a proper container, of course) lying about.
You can get Europium Oxide from Sigma-Aldrich Chemicals. About $162 for 10g. It's an oxide of the element, but it's stable.
The only tool you've got against psychosis is experience.
What a cool table
All the elements in place
I wish I had one
Hey kids, there's only 5 days left 'til Yak Shaving Day!
Anyone remember the episode of Cosmos (ca. 1981) when Carl Sagan examines a table exactly like this, except with a small, corked bottles containing each element? It was about 3x3 feet, but it was missing samples of the radioactive stuff. That inspired me to study the periodic table at age 10.
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I had a former boss who kept an X-Ray tube on his desk. It looked like a light bulb the size of a basketball. The "filament" was a spinning disk of tungsten 3-4" across. Way heavy... Way cool.
Another boss later kept an empty 20mm cartridge topped with a bullet of depleted uranium. It weighed about twice what you'd expect if you thought it was iron.
Both were very jealous of their treasures.
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it was posted on Home/Depot a month ago...
(psst I hear he's baking the Lanathanum... La!)
This
In one of the pix, he's got the table leaning on a NeXT cube. Melt it down, and add it to the table.
Maybe it was lame because he was breathing THC?
"...we hope to safely store samples of all samples that can be stored safely."
Give serendipity a chance.
smart ass
Only one moderation on the post. Overrated. How the fuck is something overrated when it hasn't been rated yet?
sPh
couldn't they have at least make it *correct*.
The Lanthanoids should be inserted between 56 and 71 and the Actinoids between 88 and 103 and the two pieces should be shifted over.
This would then correctly repesent the way the electron orbitals are filled as predicted by the wave equation.
I didn't see Eludium Phosdex (the shaving cream atom) in his table!
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
How do *YOU* know that? I'll bet you are on the watchlist.
smeat!
"Let's not bicker about who killed who." Monty Python
Ah, the joys of keeping military hardware around a small, all-women liberal arts college :^)
Eric
"Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!"
I hear Frys is having a sale on breeder reactors and gas difusion plants. You should pop down there.
Speaking of which, does anyone else think it's a bad idea to have a Tesla Coil, and a 10kw Jacob's Ladder in an electronics store or is that just me?
Ender
Nothing to see here
The visitor's center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a nice shelf display of this glass, seen in the picture at the bottom of the page. The uranium atoms fluoresce under UV light, giving a distinctive although kitschy look to the pieces.
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In the same case (on the lower shelves) are common objects found to be radioactive, with the radiation sources identified and radiation levels listed. A pair of glasses contaminated with Thorium from early A-bomb tests, a chunk of "yellow-cake" from Canadian deposits, a piece of granite from Denver, etc. Kind of cool, in a geeky sort of way
Hmmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Did anyone else notice that on the tile that lists all the groups in/on the table (alkalai, metalloids, etc.), noble is spelled "NO8LE"? It's a combination of an outer-shell electron joke and chemistry 1337-5p34k...