in reply to Periodic Table of the Elements

I think the idea of the Table is interesting, but I don't find a program that looks it up to be terribly interesting. That is, it's just as simple to just look at the DATA table in a text file.

Maybe make it more interesting by making it into a Quiz? It will prompt you for something and check your result. That would be good for studying, when learning the table in chemistry class.

It doesn't handle the atomic weights. E.g. 1.00797 for H.

It could take a molecule description, parse it, and return the weight. That could be an interesting calculator.

—John

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Re: Re: Periodic Table of the Elements
by dimmesdale (Friar) on Jun 15, 2001 at 19:41 UTC
    Actually, I was going to make it into a quiz, and it was going to be for chemistry class(since I have to remember the elements, I'd figure I'd waste as much time as I could first).