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Periodic table was developed by use JAVA Applet technologies, and it
include detailed information of all the elements included in
periodic table.
The
periodic table is the most important
chemistry reference there is. It arranges all
the known elements in an informative array. Elements are
arranged left to right and top to bottom in order of increasing atomic
number.
This order generally coincides with increasing atomic
mass(weight).
The
different rows of elements are called periods. The period
number of an element signifies the highest energy level an electron
in that element occupies (in the unexcited state). The number
of elements in a period increases as one traverses down the periodic
table because as the energy level of the atom increases, the number
of energy sub-levels per energy level increases.
Using
the data in the table scientists, students, and others that are
familiar with the periodic table can extract information concerning
individual elements. For instance, a scientist can use
carbon's atomic mass to
determine how many carbon atoms there are in a 1 kilogram block of
carbon.
People
also gain information from the periodic table by looking at how it
is put together. By examining an element's
position on the periodic table, one can infer the electron
configuration. Elements that lie in the same column on the
periodic table (called a "group") have identical valance
electron configurations and
consequently behave in a similar fashion chemically. For
instance, all the group
18 elements are inert gases. The
periodic table contains an enormous amount
of important
information. People familiar with how the table is put
together can quickly determine a significant amount of information
about an element, even if they have never heard of it.
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