CHEMISTRY: THE ELEMENTS: Helpful WEBSITES

A clickable periodic table! Find the atomic weight for beryllium or gallium or any element. An excellent chemistry resource!!

A clickable periodic table that gives in-depth information on each element. The site calls itself most complete periodic table on the web to date. Debatable...but it does offer a great deal of information. Check it out!!

For this Periodic Table, you can click on a chemical element to see its picture along with detailed information.

Click on an element to see detailed information about that element along with its history and uses.

Click on an element for abundant information.

Program Description

Video (full program). Where do nature's building blocks, called the elements, come from? They're the hidden ingredients of everything in our world, from the carbon in our bodies to the metals in our smartphones. To unlock their secrets, David Pogue, technology columnist and lively host of NOVA's popular "Making Stuff" series, spins viewers through the world of weird, extreme chemistry: the strongest acids, the deadliest poisons, the universe's most abundant elements, and the rarest of the rare—substances cooked up in atom smashers that flicker into existence for only fractions of a second.

Welcome to the Periodic Table of Comic Books. Click on an element to see a list of comic book pages involving that element. Click on a thumbnail on the list to see a full comic book page. For technical information about an element, follow the link to Mark Winter's WebElements. We recommend that you start with oxygen to see some of our best stuff. There's something for everyone here!