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The Atomic Dashboard
The Atomic Dashboard is an interactive chemistry resource and learning tool developed by Bitwixt Software Systems. Used by educators, students, scientists, and the simply curious, The Atomic Dashboard features an interactive periodic table that lets you explore the chemical elements -- their properties, periodic trends, history, and relevance to society. And more exciting, with its physics-based, 3D models of atomic orbitals, molecules, compounds, gases, and crystals, The Atomic Dashboard helps you investigate how the elements` properties reflect their composition.
A Dashboard for Chemical Knowledge
Nearly 150 years ago, the distinguished Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev discovered previously hidden relationships between the physical and chemical properties of the elements and their atomic weights. Ordering pieces of paper representing the elements into a two-dimensional grid -- a table -- he grouped together elements with similar properties. Thus was born the periodic table.
Over the years, as the periodic table was expanded, it revealed the organizing principles of matter. In fundamental ways, it contains all of chemistry -- in ways that even Mendeleev could never have dreamed. Master its secrets and you`re on your way to mastering chemistry.
Yet, for much of that time the periodic table has remained lifeless -- a collection of boxes mounted on the walls of desolate lecture halls and on the inside covers of musty textbooks.
The Atomic Dashboard Brings the Periodic Table to Life
Whether you`re a student, a teacher, or someone who just wants to understand how the universe works, The Atomic Dashboard will connect you to everything you need to know about the building blocks of matter, the elements:
- see what they look like in the macroscopic world
- dive down to see what they look like in the atomic-level world
- explore how they are constructed at the atomic level
- investigate how the atoms combine into different forms of the elements
- discover how they combine with other elements to form compounds
- look up their physical properties
- determine how their properties depend on the structure of the atom (periodic trends)
- delve into their history
- keep informed of news about the elements in today`s world
- link to interesting and informative resources about the elements on the web (e.g., famous actors sing "The Elements" song or see sodium explode in water)
The Atomic Dashboard`s user interface is dead simple -- it`s the periodic table. And as you navigate The Atomic Dashboard, you are also navigating the principles of chemistry.