Periodic Table of the Elements

This Periodic Table of the Elements has been designed as flash tiles to overlay on the official 2016 IUPAC version (available from https://iupac.org/what-we-do/periodic-table-of-elements/). Another accurate version is available at Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science\_education#/media/File:Periodic\_table\_large.svg). This "thing" serves as a studying aid for all students of science in general and of chemistry in particular.

The complete list of elements from 1 Hydrogen to 118 Oganesson are now named for the very first time. For our own copy, we laser engraved a stretched version of the IUPAC Periodic Table of the Elements on a bamboo cutting board using an Epilog Helix Laser Cutter. We then 3D printed each type of elements in a different colour with filaments from a different leading manufacturer as follows:

Alkali Metals - Red - MakerBot True Red PLA
Alkaline Metals - Orange - ESUN Orange PLA
Other Metals - Light Green - Polymaker LulzBot Green PLA
Transition Metals - Yellow - BotFeeder Macaron Yellow PLA
Lanthanoids - Light Purple - ColorFabb Lila PLA/PHA
Actinoids - Hot Pink - Materio3D Fuchsia Pink PLA
Metalloids - Light Blue - FormFutura Light Blue PLA
Nonmetals - Blue - Printrbot Translucent Blue PLA
Halogens - Brown - Proto-Pasta Aromatic Rose HTPLA
Noble Gases - Dark Purple - BEEVERYCREATIVE BEESUPPLIES Violet PLA

We used both MakerBot and LulzBot 3D printers for this project.

Enjoy learning all about what our Universe is made out of!

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Unassociated tags: Periodic Table
Category: Learning