View allAll Photos Tagged Periodictable
Working on a periodic spiral quilt as inspiration from Periodic Spiral. This uses hexagons for the design instead of squares. Project is in progress
When ships to sail the void between the stars have been invented, there will also be men who come forward to sail those ships.
—Johannes Kepler
Zirconium ( /zərˈkoʊniəm/ zər-koh-nee-əm) is a chemical element with the symbol Zr and atomic number 40. The name of zirconium is taken from the mineral zircon. Its atomic mass is 91.224. It is a lustrous, gray-white, strong transition metal that resembles titanium. Zirconium is mainly used as a refractory and opacifier, although minor amounts are used as alloying agent for its strong resistance to corrosion. Zirconium is obtained mainly from the mineral zircon, which is the most important form of zirconium in use.
Zirconium forms a variety of inorganic and organometallic compounds such as zirconium dioxide and zirconocene dichloride, respectively. Five isotopes occur naturally, three of which are stable. Zirconium compounds have no biological role.
Working on a periodic spiral quilt as inspiration from Periodic Spiral. This uses hexagons for the design instead of squares. Project is in progress
Phosphorus (P) 15
printed by Michelle Arnold of moonshinebluebirds
I carved it into wood that I found at the hardware store that was moderately soft (I can not remember what kind!) Used watercolor, varied the color just a little. I am interested in more experimentation with watercolor as part of the medium, it takes on a life of its own and the artist guides it, but does not completely control it.
The images represent phosphorus in that it is found in bones, represented by the skull. The skull means much more than just the fact that it is found within bones. Phosphorus has a deadly side, it is also used in bombs, which the skull can also allude too. It was used in red tipped saftey matches and is a prominent component in fertilizers. The match is enclosed by its alchemical symbol.
A few parts that I would of loved to incorporate perhaps with another woodblock would of been its agricultural attributes. And of course its hard to forget, once you've read about it, how it was discovered. Which included buckets of the researchers urine. It certainly brings up a lot of questions as to what brought him to the point of trying that (though it worked). In actuality my first thoughts were a bit juvenile and images of calvin peeing came to mind.
Phillip Barron from the Human and Humanities Project discusses the ethics of performance enhancing drugs and sports equipment development at December's Periodic Tables.
Join us on the second Tuesday of every month for a lively conversation at Broad Street Café.
In the English building (Bates, formerly General College Building) at ECU. My dad says the reason Hydrogen is on twice is that it can either take or give an election.
Christa Demetriou
Periodic Table Print Project
Accompanying text for Ni 28
A US nickel contains 1.25g of Nickel and 3.75g of Copper.
I was quite interested to find out that the value of nickel in a nickel has actually become worth more than the purchasing power of a nickel. I decided to plot the value of 1.25g of Ni 28 against the value of a US nickel over the last 6 months to illustrate this. If you also included the value of copper found in a nickel you’d be looking at almost doubling your money if you were to start melting down your nickels.
Before you get too excited though, the United States Mint criminalised the melting and export of cents and nickels on December 14th, 2006 in anticipation of the rising value of nickel.
If you got caught, you would have to melt down at least 100,000 nickels to pay the $10,000 fine or risk up to five years imprisonment.
The print was created using four different plates, one for each colour. The text-based plates are photo-etchings, one printed in black and the other in silver (to represent the colour of nickel). The lines on the graph are simple drypoint lines, the red to represent the value of nickel and the green (the colour of money) to represent a nickel. They were printed on BFK Rives Grey paper.
From the website Dapperstache. Funny stuff.
If you translate the true science behind it then the following observations become apparent:
- Beer is the most common. Frankly, I would prefer if Chocolate was the most common.
- We breathe Cheese. This is especially true for Americans and Europeans.
- We drink in Bacon and Cheese, which goes great with Beer.
This is a periodic table of U.S. Non-Immigrant visas made for Jan Albrecht. It will be uploaded on his site www.immigrationado.com as an interactive table as soon as we will design a proper interface for it.
"Stand up, all victims of oppression,
For the tyrants fear your might!
Don't cling so hard to your possessions,
For you have nothing if you have no rights!
Let racist ignorance be ended,
For respect makes the empires fall!
Freedom is merely privilege extended,
Unless enjoyed by one and all.
So come brothers and sisters,
For the struggle carries on.
The Internationale,
Unites the world in song.
So comrades, come rally,
For this is the time and place!
The international ideal,
Unites the human race.
Let no one build walls to divide us,
Walls of hatred nor walls of stone.
Come greet the dawn and stand beside us,
We'll live together or we'll die alone.
In our world poisoned by exploitation,
Those who have taken, now they must give!
And end the vanity of nations,
We've but one Earth on which to live.
So come brothers and sisters,
For the struggle carries on.
The Internationale,
Unites the world in song.
So comrades, come rally,
For this is the time and place!
The international ideal,
Unites the human race.
And so begins the final drama,
In the streets and in the fields.
We stand unbowed before their armour,
We defy their guns and shields!
When we fight, provoked by their aggression,
Let us be inspired by life and love.
For though they offer us concessions,
Change will not come from above!
So come brothers and sisters,
For the struggle carries on.
The Internationale,
Unites the world in song.
So comrades, come rally,
For this is the time and place!
The international ideal,
Unites the human race."
—Billy Bragg, The Internationale
by Kathleen Ochmanski
meringue.etsy.com
Radon (atomic number: 86 and atomic weight: 222) is a naturally occurring radioactive gas created by the decay of uranium in water, soil or rock. Radon is a leading cause of lung cancer, second only to smoking. My print, inspired by nostalgic government agitprop, depicts a female silhouette with a gas mask, highlighted lungs and backed with the red and orange glowing rays radon emits in sub-freezing temperatures. This piece is a hand printed, three-color, reduction linoleum cut conveying the dangers of this toxic element.
Printed by Tara Shedlosky
About the Print:
Sulfur Dioxide is one of the three most common gases that are in magma (water vapor and carbon dioxide are the other two). At high pressures beneath the Earth's surface the volcanic gases are dissolved in the molten rock. As the magma rises to the surface, the gases form tiny bubbles which expand. The expansion of the gases is the force that drives a volcanic eruption.
Sulfur is found in its elemental form around hot springs and volcanoes.
Part of the Periodic Table Printmaking Project:
Fitting to Oxford: a taxi with tthe periodical table of element printed on it. Behind it some double-decker buses from Stagecoach and the Oxford Bus Company.
The artist:
I live in MA and am artistically challenged. My first degree is a BA in art. Since then I have gone on to get a BS & MS, and work in the area of radiation protection (ie, practical physics). I pesently work full time and am in a PhD program for Biomedical Engineering & Biotechnology. Lots of science. So I don't often get a chance any more to do artwork. I love these challenges as they provide deadlines and get me going.
The element:
Rutherfordium (Rf)
The Russians first created the element 104 in 1964 by colliding energetic (170 MeV) neon with plutionium targets.
22Ne + 242Pu → 260Rf + 4 n
America didn't have an accelorator that could repeat this experiment but in the efforts to not let the Russians get the best of us during the cold war we did it our way. Lawrence Berkeley Lab created other isotopes of Rf in 1969 colliding accelorated carbon with californium targets. There are about 20 isotopes of Rf that have been created to date. None of them have any use and all undergo radioactive decay, usually by emission of an alpha particle.
The Russians had first right to the name, however element 104 went un-named for decades as the East & the West duked it out. At various times element 104 had 3 names: Kurchetovium, Dubrovnium and Rutherfordium. Rutherfordium won, but I hear there were concessions made.
Since this stuff seems off of the pages of science fiction, I did a 1960s version of a cartoon with neon and plutonium (check the "O") combining to make Rf. 4 neutrons spin off in the reaction. No isotopes of rutherfordium are stable so the background is a "half life" graph.
The method:
I used Monoprint and Pronto lithography methods, but I did number the print because the process is somewhat repeatable. I gave myself up a maximum edition of 5, and I presently have 2 prints that I liked. Why print more? Who wants to purchase Rutherfordium? And even as a gift it might have only limited appeal, like the Star Trek plate my sister sent my husband.
The print is on Arches 88. This paper is not wet prior to printing. Colored areas used Caran D'Arche water color crayons. Createx medium is used for better coloring and release of the watercolor crayons. Because the paper is not wet, the plate was misted lightly to facilitate release of the colored areas. The black outline was done with a Pronto polymer plate and Graphic Chemical oil based black litho ink. The black was printed immediately after the water based colored areas. I have never done this before - oil on water - but it seems to have worked.
Barbara Reider: www.atomic-surf-arts.com/index.htm
Made by Cupcakes Take the Cake reader Sarah Newman, an astrophysics grad student at UC Berkeley, who writes:
I recently had a Science Rules! party and made a
periodic table of mini cupcakes (I omitted the transition metals,
because that was way too much). Anywhere, here's a picture. The colors
separate the different groups (i.e. halogens, non-metals,
noble-gases...) The cupcakes came from a nearly flourless recipe, so
really dense and kind of like brownies, with a bailey's cream cheese
frosting.
People don't seem to know that fluorescent light bulbs contain small amounts of mercury. Could the reason be as simple as never getting to know the Table of Elements? Or is this dishonest labeling?
Learn it, love it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgVQKCcfwnU
A little knowledge can dispel a lot of fear.
Is this mercury a problem? In the environment, no. See
www.popularmechanics.com/home/reviews/news/4217864
In your house, if you break the bulb? It's a problem, but no worse than some spilled nail polish remover, cracking or broken old paint, or any other toxic household waste issue. See:
One item from an exhibition of public art staged around the streets and public spaces in Orta San Guilio. This one takes the theme of chemical elements (K = potassium, Na = sodium, Mn = manganese, etc) possibly highlighting the elements present in the work (lots of copper (Cu))?
See here for another in a series displayed throughout the town of Orta
Macro playtime at the lab again... major nerd alert! *LOL*
For the uninitiated ones: black = carbon, red = oxygen, blue = nitrogen, white = hydrogen, green = I ran out of white, sorry... :-P
I got to your house this morning just a little after nine
in the middle of that riot
couldn't get you off my mind
so I'm at your house this morning
just a little after nine
cause it was in Bobcaygeon where I saw the constellations
reveal themselves one star at a time
—The Tragically Hip, Bobcaygeon
This Pacific Heights boutique just open yesterday. They have fabulous handbags. The designers were working in the newly open shop. This periodic table art was in the back.
Antimony (SB, 51) from the Printmakers' Periodic Table of the Elements project. This spring, I tried the plate out with this light brown ink on cream paper. Akua intaglio inks, Somerset paper. The image is based on the town of Antimony, Utah. Having lived in the West for a while, I think of the green hills and valleys as turning brown as the hot summer sun dries things out. Was going for that effect here. But I think I still prefer the dark green I used for the 'official' project version.
The Periodic Table - Elements with Style, Simon Basher and Adrian Dingle (Kingfisher, 2007).
See also www.flickr.com/groups/periodictable/
Working on a periodic spiral quilt as inspiration from Periodic Spiral. This uses hexagons for the design instead of squares. Project is in progress
Bromine, symbol Br, atomic number 35 is a red, non-metallic liquid discovered in 1826 by Antoine Balard in a salt marsh. *Though perhaps a German student Carl Lowig found it first but didn't get around to claiming it. Bromine is not something you want to stick your nose in, as it is irritating, burning and hazardous, with a noxious vapor.
The name bromine comes from the Greek for "bromos" or stench. The stench might even be that attributed to a stinky goat.
From bromine, we get bromides, which are compounds containing bromine. An example is silver bromide is used in photographic processes.
Bromine/bromide has also influenced language. That is the use of bromide to mean dull, uninteresting, trite and tiresome. To quote wordsmith.org: " In earlier times, potassium bromide used to be taken as a sedative. So any statement that was intended to be soothing ("Don't worry, everything will be OK.") acquired the name bromide. Eventually any commonplace or tired remark and anyone uttering such remarks came to be known as a bromide."
From this boring "bromide" comes "bromidic," the adjective form.
* * *
My print was created by screen print with 3 screens for 3 color process. Due to some learning curve errors, in the end my screens were created by painting the negative space with screen filler.
I used the image of a goat after reading a reference to "stench of the goat" relating to the Greek word for stench. This goat is standing by a marsh and inhaling the nasty red vapor of bromine (but he doesn't mind, because he already smells).
After I had designed the image, I went on to read about the linguistic connection between bromine and bromide/bromidic. I thought that was really interesting. I always like when sedation leads to new words. Nowadays I don't think these terms are used much, but we should put them back into use. It can be the new cool slang if we get the right people saying it in public. It's basically the equivalent to "triflin'" (trifle-ing) anyway.
* * *
I love this project, everybody's prints, and can't wait to see where this goes. Thanks to azuregrackle and everybody else. Various internet sources were used in obtaining the above info about bromine.
Robin @ lookability.etsy.com
Ytterbium ( /ɨˈtɜrbiəm/ i-tur-bee-əm) is a chemical element with the symbol Yb and atomic number 70. A soft silvery metallic element, ytterbium is a rare earth element of the lanthanide series and is found in the minerals gadolinite, monazite, and xenotime. The element is sometimes associated with yttrium or other related elements and is used in certain steels. Natural ytterbium is a mix of seven stable isotopes. Ytterbium-169, an artificially produced isotope, is used as a gamma ray source.
Vanilla cupcakes filled with strawberry and iced with vanilla buttercream. Fondant labcoats and a periodic table birthday message. Can you spot the mistake?
Europium ( /jʊˈroʊpiəm/ ew-roh-pee-əm) is a chemical element with the symbol Eu and atomic number 63. It is named after the continent of Europe. It is a moderately hard silvery metal which readily oxidizes in air and water. Being a typical member of the lanthanide series, europium usually assumes the oxidation state +3, but the oxidation state +2 is also common: all europium compounds with oxidation state +2 are slightly reducing. Europium has no significant biological role and is relatively non-toxic compared to other heavy metals. Most applications of europium exploit the phosphorescence of europium compounds.
My Flickr account moved over 200 000 views today. To celebrate ... another photo of some random thing :)
Thanks for dropping by for a look at my stuff. That's what it's here for.
printed by Mira Bednarek
monotype
Yttrium is used in television tubes to make the red
color. It was discovered in Ytterby, Sweden hence the swedish flag on the
one tv screen. It's a monoprint...meaning...like a painting it is an
original. I love to do sketches, photocopy them and alter them with zooming,
etc. Then I transfer the images using a gum arabic solution...the
photocopies become plates essentially. I like adding textures by creating my
own collage style plates...sometimes using random things like eggshells to
get the texture in the Yttrium print. I thought the eggshell texture
reminded me of a fuzzy tv screen. I don't know how many times I put this
particular print through the press. I never count.
Thulium ( /ˈθjuːliəm/ thew-lee-əm) is a chemical element that has the symbol Tm and atomic number 69. Thulium is the second least abundant of the lanthanides (promethium is only found in trace quantities on Earth). It is an easily workable metal with a bright silvery-gray luster. Despite its high price and rarity, thulium is used as the radiation source in portable X-ray devices and in solid-state lasers.
"We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under.
The first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public...The second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes...Then there is the third category, the category of who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love...And finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present."
—Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being