How to use it
- Find an element on the table or type its name, symbol or number.
- Tap it to open its card with the main properties.
- Tap a category in the legend to highlight that family.
Questions and answers
How many elements are there?
118 confirmed elements, from hydrogen (1) to oganesson (118). The last four were named in 2016: nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson.
How is the periodic table organized?
By atomic number (protons). Rows are periods and columns are groups: elements in the same group have the same number of outer electrons and similar chemistry.
What do the colors mean?
Each color is a category: alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, transition metals, other metals, metalloids, nonmetals, halogens, noble gases, lanthanides and actinides.
Where does the data come from?
Masses and properties come from PubChem, run by the US National Institutes of Health. Values in brackets or marked predicted are for unstable elements.