You’re welcome - but please don’t use my words without careful proofreading - I’m a musician, not a chemist. ![]()
I would center the symbols up-and-down but move them off to the left … then add valences on the right … that’s kinda sorta the most important information for the student of chemistry …
It would be nice if the orbital filling were as simple as depicted. Unfortunately there are something like twenty exceptions. For example, the electron configuration of the ground state of Cr is [Ar]3d[sup]5[/sup]4s[sup]1[/sup], rather than the expected [Ar]3d[sup]4[/sup]4s[sup]2[/sup]. The exceptions are those printed in red in the table here
Go to Edit>Select All in All Layers>
…assuming you don’t have extraneous stuff scattered all around the actual table, you should see the accurate “W” and “H” size up top, next to where you change the units of measurement to your preference. Now with the W/H proportion LOCK on, you can scale it up or down infinitely without losing quality, as long as it’s all still fully vector based.
Once you’ve got it the right size, go on over to File > Document Properties, change units of measurement if necessary, and then click “Resize page to content”
Just in case I wasn’t clear about how to do that last bit, with that proportion LOCK engaged, just type in your preferred “W” value (right there where you see the numbers) and the “H” will scale in proportion.
One other thing, the real name of element 118 is Ogsmashium.
(well, it should be…)
When the arrow indicating the lanthanides is corrected so that it emerges from between Ra and Lr, it may end up having to follow quite a convoluted path. Or (if it’s logical or proper to do so) the charts for electronegativity and orbitals could be moved to the far right of the page, the lanthanides and actinides moved to the far left, and… well, the arrow would still have a tough job getting where it’s going, so maybe not worth the effort.
I found this page: Tricks and tips - Inkscape Wiki but the instructions seem to be for a different version. My version has Document Properties, not Preferences, but even then I’m stuck. I guess page size is the new term for canvas size, but even then I can’t find Fit Page to Selection. I have Resize Page to Drawing or Selection, which seems like the same thing, BUT the dialog box doesn’t fit on my screen; the bottom goes out of sight and I can’t resize the box. I think there’s an OK button down there, but I can’t see it or use it, so this whole box is useless unless I can fix this.
–the noble gases are kind of yellow-orange, as are the transition metals. I can’t tell them apart. Yes, I can figure out which are which, but I’d pick a different color for one of them.
–the box at the top has: Tc - man made, where the Tc appears to be fat and bold. The actual letters in the chart are outlined.
About the dialog box:
Can you use Alt+mouse-drag to see the rest of it? If not, can you blindly use the right keys to interact with it anyway?
This part is just how it’s showing on your particular screen. If you zoom in on the Tc, you’ll probably be able to see that it’s actually been done correctly.
I think Tc was off. Thanks. I have it lined up now.
I just have a few suggestions:
In your latest version, the floating example key for Pt is still colored gray, but all the transition metals and noble gases are colored the same yellow-orange hue below (at least on my screen, they seem almost identical). I would propose changing the transition metals back to gray (in both your table and key), to match the gray in your example for Pt.
Can you fix the table below to match the darker purple that was used in the key above for the Alkali Metals? Or, at least change both the key and table to a new, matching color? On my screen, the Lithium group metals are exactly the same color as the lavender Actinides. Also, I think that the key should say “Alkali Metals,” rather than “Alkaline Metals.”
Elements 71 and 103 are miscolored…Instead, I would put “La” and “Ac” in your periodic table under Group 3, and then list all the Lanthanides and Actinides again below (including Lu and Lr), that way your arrow will be correct and doesn’t need to be moved.
The word “Group” is shown to indicate the Group numbers, but not “Period” for the Period numbers. Perhaps this can be added vertically?
Check back through my posts in this thread and the other, I thought I went over that. I’m on a phone and busy right now, so I can’t go into detailed steps or troubleshooting what sounds like a resolution problem(?), but if you post a link to the latest version and the size you want it to be, I’ll do it for you if someone else doesn’t do it first.
Why are there so many elements in brackets ? Why aren’t more elements in this exception list?
How about add the average of the terrestial occuring mass numbers for each element,
so that if its 99.9, we are pretty sure the dominant terrestial isotope is of atomic mass number 100. And then add the number of terrestial naturally occuring isotopes of any significant abundance. If there’s one a trillion doesn’t count, its irrelevant. So number more than 1% say?
And so if the number of isotopes in the sample is stated as “1”, we would know the atomic weight given is of atomic mass number given - not an average of multiple. And thus there’d be no need for exeption lists. If you were given a sample of a different atomic weight or atomic mass number, you aren’t getting the grams per mol from this periodic table. Unless the expected error isn’t significant to you.
Ok, there’s an easier way using keyboard shortcuts:
Ctrl+Alt+A selects all in all Layers
Shift+Ctrl+R Resizes page to selection