PeriodicTable.jl

A very simple package for accessing elements in the Periodic Table! :fire:

Installation

Since PeriodicTable is registered in Julia's General Registry, you can readily install it with

] add PeriodicTable

Usage

PeriodicTable.jl provides a Julia interface to a small database of element properties for all of the elements in the periodic table. In particular PeriodicTable exports a global variable called elements, which is a collection of Element data structures.

julia> using PeriodicTable

julia> elements
Elements(…119 elements…):
H                                                  He
Li Be                               B  C  N  O  F  Ne
Na Mg                               Al Si P  S  Cl Ar
K  Ca Sc Ti V  Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br Kr
Rb Sr Y  Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn Sb Te I  Xe
Cs Ba    Hf Ta W  Re Os Ir Pt Au Hg Tl Pb Bi Po At Rn
Fr Ra    Rf Db Sg Bh Hs Mt Ds Rg Cn Nh Fl Mc Lv Ts Og
Uue                                                   
      La Ce Pr Nd Pm Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb Lu    
      Ac Th Pa U  Np Pu Am Cm Bk Cf Es Fm Md No Lr

You can look up elements by name (case-insensitive) via elements["oxygen"], by symbol via elements[:O], or by number via elements[8], for example.

Each element has fields name, appearance, atomic_mass, boil, category, color, density, discovered_by, melt, molar_heat, named_by, number, period, phase, source, spectral_img, summary, symbol, xpos, ypos, shells.

All physical quantities are unitful.

The data is pretty-printed when you look up an element in the Julia REPL. For example:

julia> elements["oxygen"]
Oxygen (O), number 8:
        category: diatomic nonmetal
     atomic mass: 15.999 u
         density: 1.429 g/cm³
   melting point: 54.36 K
   boiling point: 90.188 K
           phase: Gas
          shells: [2, 6]
e⁻-configuration: 1s² 2s² 2p⁴
         summary: Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group on the periodic table and is a highly reactive nonmetal and oxidizing agent that readily forms compounds (notably oxides) with most elements. By mass, oxygen is the third-most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium.
   discovered by: Carl Wilhelm Scheele
        named by: Antoine Lavoisier
          source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen
  spectral image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oxygen_spectre.jpg
 

Alternatively, you may want to get a list of elements,

julia> elements[1:4]
4-element Array{PeriodicTable.Element,1}:
 Element(Hydrogen) 
 Element(Helium)   
 Element(Lithium)  
 Element(Beryllium)

A nice interactive visualization of the periodic table, based on PeriodicTable.jl, can be found here.

Data by

The data used for this package has been pulled up in parts from here. Atomic weights are from the IUPAC 2021 tabulation

Related packages

Mendeleev is API compatible with the PeriodicTable and contains much broader range of data on chemical elements. IsotopeTable, also inspired by PeriodicTable, provides data on various isotopes.

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