The Best Websites for Understanding Periodic Table

Whenever you visit a search engine and type something like best chemistry websites you usually come across pages that list websites on the basis of no. of visits they get, but this does not solve our problem as many chemistry sites visited frequently across the globe are of not much interest or use to an undergraduate or a high school student. For example, sites like ACS.org or CAS.org are basically there to attract the scholars. So here we have put an effort to list websites on the basis of various keywords people use to find answers to their chemistry problems. Hope you will like this effort.

An excellent and my favorite website for learning the periodic table is http://www.rsc.org/

It is by far the best website you come across as a science student. It has all the necessary features in it(almost all). When you visit the page http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table you view tabs like Home, History, Alchemy, Podcast, Videos and Trends. Each of these leads to a new page showing their respective data. Alchemy is a new step that was lacking in the www.ptable.com also the trends here are a good addition although very few and basic properties have been selected for the trends but still it is a very good effort. Related videos have been given along with the past history and uses. Another new feature is the VISUAL ELEMENT IMAGES. This tab leads you to periodic table with images of elements relating them to their discovery, use, or history.

Key Features:

1.       Gives pressure and temperature data.

2.       Gives details of top producers, reserve holders, relative supply risk and much more.

3.       Interactive

4.       Shows trends

5.       Gives history and uses

6.       Alchemy and VISUAL ELEMENT IMAGES.

7.       Podcast and related videos.

Drawbacks:

1.       No crystal structures.

2.       No actual images of elements.

3.       No list of compounds.

4.       Not available in multiple languages.

http://www.chemicool.com/ as the name suggests, this site is there to give you a cool chemistry overview of the elements and believe me they have done t pretty nicely. Although I totally dislike the home page graphics which are very dull yet it is a site with data rich content. Clicking on an element leads to details of the element including: Data/Discovery/Facts/Appearance/Uses/Abundance and Isotopes/References.

Data is good and reliable but lacks many useful features which makes it a less useful site according to my analysis.

Key Features:

1.       Simple one page description of each element.

2.       Element image available.

3.       Related video is available for some elements showing either their appearance ofr an interesting reaction.

4.       Relative to other sites are more detailed history has been given.

Drawbacks:

1.       No crystal structures.

2.       No podcast, limited related videos.

3.       No trends of properties.

4.       Not enough attractive.

5.       No temperature and pressure data.

6.       No supply risk detail.

https://www.webelements.com/ Wow! What a site! What a huge collection of data and extraordinarily useful information for a chemistry pupil. A must visit and the no.1 site according to almost any evaluation is this site.

Criteria/Website	http://www.ptable.com/	http://periodic.lanl.gov/index.shtml	http://www.chemicool.com/	https://www.webelements.com/	http://www.periodictable.com/	http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/	http://www.chemicalelements.com/	http://www.lenntech.com/periodic/periodic-chart.htm	http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table
History	Au	Ag	Pt	Pt	Base	Au	Base	Au	Pt
Photo of element	Au	Base	Pt	Pt	Au	Base	Base	Au	Base
Properties	Au	Ag	Au	Pt	Au	Cu	Ag	Ag	Ag
Trends of Properties	Base	Base	Base	Base	Base	Base	Base	Base	Pt
Isotopes	Pt	Base	Ag	Pt	Au	Au	Ag	Cu	Au
Crystal Structure	Ag	Base	Ag	Pt	Ag	Base	Cu	Base	Ag
Occurrence	Au	Ag	Cu	Pt	Ag	Ag	Cu	Cu	Cu
Temperature and Pressure Data	Pt	Base	Cu	Pt	Au	Ag	Base	Base	Pt
Energy level Diagram	Pt	Cu	Base	Pt	Cu	Cu	Au	Cu	Au
Largest Producers	Base	Base	Base	Base	Base	Base	Base	Base	Pt
Health Effects	Base	Base	Cu	Au	Base	Base	Base	Pt	Ag
Uses	Pt	Ag	Ag	Pt	Au	Ag	Cu	Au	Ag
Names of Binary Compounds	Pt	Base	Base	Pt	Ag	Base	Base	Base	Pt
Overall Ranking	3rd	9th	5th	1st	4th	7th	8th	6th	2nd