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Chemistry: About the Elements
- Royal Society of Chemistry's Interactive Periodic TableThe Royal Society of Chemistry's interactive periodic table features history, alchemy, podcasts, videos, and data trends across the periodic table.
- Los Alamos: Periodic TableClick on an element for history, properties and uses
- Jefferson Lab: Periodic TableClick on an element for properties and compounds. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) is one of 17 national laboratories funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
- Web ElementsThis interactive periodic table includes information about uses and characteristics of elements in everyday life.
- Chemicool Periodic TableInteractive information from and about the periodic table of elements. This site contains advertisements and was created by a Chemical Engineer.
- ASC periodic tablePeriodic Table Live! allows you to explore a broad range of information about the elements, their reactions, their properties, their structures, and their histories
Period Table of Videos
- TedEd Periodic TableA clickable periodic table with videos on every element from TED-Ed and Brady Haran, the creator of the YouTube channel Numberphile.
- The periodic table of videosA short video about each element in the periodic table, produced by trained chemists (don't try this at home).
Chemistry: Health Focus
- Household products databaseThe Household Products Database of the National Library of Medicine is based on the Consumer Product Information Database. This database links over 11,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) provided by manufacturers and allows scientists and consumers to research products based on chemical ingredients.
Videos
Bytesize science playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB6A2947FFC507110
Nova: Elements
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General Science Resources
- Science.govsearch databases and websites from 12 federal agencies
- World Wide ScienceMaintained by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information as the Operating Agent for the WorldWideScience Alliance
- Wolfram AlphaComputation engine. Find most any quantifiable fact about an element. Compare elements by entering their symbols in the search box: for example Be, Mg, Ca.