Spiral Terrain

Jeff Moran's Periodic Spiral as a landscape. Pick a property and every element rises to its value, so families and trends read as ridges, peaks and valleys.

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    Prototype. Periodic Spiral design © Jeff Moran, periodicspiral.com. Data: Periodic Table JSON (density, melting and boiling points, electronegativity, ionization energy, atomic weight),crustal abundance (CRC Handbook) anddiscovery years via Wikipedia. Flat grey stubs mark elements with no measured value.