Periodic Tables Online
The same 118 elements, shown many ways: to look them up, to see them, and to see where they come from. Each one opens in a new tab.
Look up the elements
- Our Periodic Table Ours: a story for every element, a temperature slider for solid, liquid or gas, and four games.
- Royal Society of Chemistry (opens in a new tab) The history, uses and data of every element, a piece of art for each one, and a short podcast episode about most of them.
- PubChem (opens in a new tab) The US National Library of Medicine’s table: color it by size, melting point, when each element was found, and more.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (opens in a new tab) A page for each element: who found it, where its name comes from, where it is found, and what it is used for.
- IUPAC (opens in a new tab) The official table from the scientists who name the elements, with the latest atomic weights, to download and print.
In pictures
- The Photographic Periodic Table (opens in a new tab) Theodore Gray’s photos of a sample of every element and of things made from it, many of which you can spin around. (The site also has a shop.)
- Elements in Pictures and Words (opens in a new tab) Keith Enevoldsen’s poster: each element with a drawing of something it is in or used for, free to print.
Other ways to see it
- Where the elements come from (opens in a new tab) Each element colored by how it was made: in the Big Bang, in dying and exploding stars, or when neutron stars collide.
- The EuChemS Periodic Table (opens in a new tab) The 90 natural elements, each drawn as big as how much of it there is, colored by which are running out, with the ones in a phone marked.
- Alternative periodic tables (opens in a new tab) The same elements arranged as spirals, pyramids, circles and 3D shapes, on Wikipedia.