Periodic Table Of States
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Periodic Table Of States
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#2Good luck using this on a smartphone.
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#3Is it just me or is everyone experiencing that the YouTube video is totally in the way of allowing one to look at this site? I can't even close the video window ("how to destroy a magnet") to actually learn what this post is all about.
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#4It took me a minute but I figured out the YouTube video is part of it, if you click on an element, you get a YouTube video of people showing the element in glass tubes and such. Awesome idea, absolutely horrid execution. On the left, between the top bar, the state of matter key, and the YouTube video, there is hardly any room to see the periodic table.
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#5Is it just me or is everyone experiencing that the YouTube video is totally in the way of allowing one to look at this site? I can't even close the video window ("how to destroy a magnet") to actually learn what this post is all about.
The scientist who put this together probably only tested it on large monitors. I had the same experience on my laptop's main display but on my (larger) external monitor the video floats below the table. Setting the browser zoom level to something like 75% manually also fixes the problem.
Cool site though, I wouldn't have guessed that there were any elements that remain solids at 6000K, or that helium remains a liquid even at absolute 0.
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#6Wow, didn't know magnetism also varies with temperature. Any simple explanation why?
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#7Wow, didn't know magnetism also varies with temperature. Any simple explanation why?
From what I remember of my rusty high school chemistry magnetism requires a certain relatively stable configuration of the valence electrons. I'm guessing that as temperature increases it's impossible for the atoms (or even just the electrons) to maintain that configuration because of the increased energy. The electrons might even get excited enough to jump to entirely different orbitals, but I'm not sure if it works that way.
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#8Wow, didn't know magnetism also varies with temperature. Any simple explanation why?
From what I remember of my rusty high school chemistry magnetism requires a certain relatively stable configuration of the valence electrons. I'm guessing that as temperature increases it's impossible for the atoms (or even just the electrons) to maintain that configuration because of the increased energy. The electrons might even get excited enough to jump to entirely different orbitals, but I'm not sure if it works…
In general, magnetism requires the material to be ordered, and heating an object up involves adding lots of random motion to the system.
> The electrons might even get excited enough to jump to entirely different orbitals
That's what causes hot objects to glow, basically -- the electrons get pushed to higher orbitals, and then fall back down again, emitting light.
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#9Very cool... but where is pressure? I don't see even a mention of what pressure is being used.
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#10Is it just me or is everyone experiencing that the YouTube video is totally in the way of allowing one to look at this site? I can't even close the video window ("how to destroy a magnet") to actually learn what this post is all about.
Hitting the thing that looks like a play button actually toggles the video visibility.