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Periodic Table of the Elements

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Masses of information - in such a readable format - simply the best periodic table i have used. Highly reccommend.

The given product details are incomplete. The product consists of an A4 size card which has a periodic table on both sides and is clear plastic coated. The small size with such a thorough list of properties makes for a very handy and mobile resource. Such a large reference of elemental properties can be provided for each element by: splitting the information between the two sides, and by using a colour code key to identify each coloured number as referring, for example, to the standard reduction potential as separate from the covalent or the ionic radius, and from your 1st, 2nd, 3rd ionisation energy ... Most importantly the orbital designations spdf are given for the electronic configurations, and not merely electron totals. The only data that I could find absent was a designation of the lattice type present in the metals as cubic, hexagonal or body centred cubic packing. The price paid for a periodic table that holds to the principle of include every property is inevitably you can be forced to squint and concentrate carefully in order not to confuse your 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th oxidation states, or your electronegativity with your isotopic abundances, or your high/low spin configurations with your enthalpies of atomisation ... I find I have to remove my spectacles and hold the table four inches from my eyes to read it. Since I think there are a lot of spectacle wearers I am deducting a star.