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Printed by Hien Nguyen
About the Element:
Rubidium, the 37th element in the periodic table, was discovered by Robert Wilhem Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff at the University of Heidelberg in 1861. It is a soft, silvery-white metallic element of the alkali metal group. It reacts violently with water and can ignite spontaneously in air. The element gives a reddish-violet color to a flame, hence its name. Rubidium salts are used in fireworks, glasses, and ceramics to give them a purple colour. The metal is also used in atomic clocks, in the manufacture of photocells and in the removal of residual gases from vacuum tubes. Rubidium is named after the Latin "rubidus" which means "deepest red."
About the Print:
My print is inspired by Rubidium's volatile nature, particularly in its reaction with water, and the reddish-violet color of its flame that gives it its name. I originally thought I'd incorporate a crimson red color in the design in homage to the element's name, but with further research, I came across a photo that showed that Rubidium actually looks more like a soft reddish-violet color when in water. In the end, I preferred the more harmonious interaction of the soft reddish-violet with the print's predominant blues. I guess in spite of its explosive interaction with water, it can still exist harmoniously with water, at least on a color level. The print comes from four birch plywood blocks. It's printed with Akua-Kolor water-based inks on Rives BFK paper.
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.
Antimony (SB, 51) from the Printmakers' Periodic Table of the Elements project. I was able to get just a few new pulls of the etching plate. Used Akua inks this time.
Chemical element symbol for Magnesium from the periodic table of the elements. Taken from public domain periodic table from nist.gov. Similar images of other elements are available for viewing in the [url=http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=3827729]Science Elements lightbox[/url].
China's Belt and Road Initiative is a gargantuan master plan out to the year 2049 involving over 1,500 projects and mega projects, 150 nations, over 75% of the world's energy reserves, and much, much more.
Their Grand Strategy, whole-of-government roadmap for conquering the world and supplanting the United States as the hegemonic power in a new world order with China at the center is often portrayed using maps, but I decided to try and conceptualize it using the Periodic Table.
Infographic made in Adobe Illustrator.
I love this Ghoulia ! Her eyes are lovely, and she has just the slightest hint of a smile ! Her dress is perfect, and looks great with or without her flared lab coat. I love her new hairstyle - just wish it wasn't so chopped and hacked in the back. And that they'd done something unique with her shoes. Or glasses.
This may be one of my fave Ghoulias ever - from her 'brain' headband to her kinda-blah shoes !
my niece has been WAY into the periodic table ever since she was 5 or 6 -- is currently working on a project to build a periodic table table, i.e. a table with compartments for samples of each (non-radioactive) element... but until that's built, these cards are a pretty good substitute
i'm pretty sure she knows literally everything there is to know about each element -- every question i ask gets an immediate & detailed answer...
By Lana Lambert
pistolespress.etsy.com
This print was carved from a poplar block and printed on masa paper with sumi ink. There are so many applications for Zinc but the ones that stuck out in my mind are the medicinal uses. I read that a study in Europe showed that plants and animals that were denied zinc in their diets during developmental stages of life grew to be stunted and weak. I decided to carve an old victorian cabinet scene with antique bottles and a tube of zinc oxide cream. Zinc Lozenges are still used today to stave off colds and general health ailments. Zinc Oxide cream prevents sunburn, heals lesions, and is used for burns. I've chine colléd a colorful label onto the main bottle which states the element's symbol and atomic number.
About the Element
Indium was discovered by Ferdinand Reich and Hieronymous Richter while they were studying Zinc ore for traces of Thallium. Surprised by the unexpected brightly colored spectrograph images, they named the new element Indium in honor of the indigo line in its atomic spectrum. Today indium is used primarily as an ingredient in alloys used by the electronics industry, but its first major application was as a thin, slippery coating over ball bearings used in high performance air craft during World War II.
About the Print
Originally intended to be a simple one color screen-print, this project took on a life of it's own and ended up being constructed from a polyester plate lithograph, hard ground etching, spit-bitten aquatint, and some minor hand water coloring.
This periodic table of the elements is a table owned by Theodore Gray. Under each wooden square is a sample of the element in question. The lead pot contains a small sample of something containing uranium. Right after I took this picture, I opened it and looked inside.
UPDATE: In the Champaign-Urbana Airport on my way out of town, when the TSA inspector was examining my luggage my suitcase set off the alarm on the wipe test. I remarked that I had visited someone who had a collection of minerals and my clothes could have carried some of the dust from the collection.
The inspector said, "That couldn't affect this test because the test only checks for highly explosive substances." I smiled broadly and replied, "no really, he has collected practically the whole Periodic Table." And then I ecouraged her to root through the suitcase to find the clothes I'd been wearing when this photo was taken and test those. She looked absolutely horrified, did a couple of quick swab tests of the inside of the suitcase which came negative, slapped the Inspected By... document in the suitcase and zipped it up as quickly as she could.
Perhaps the moment captured in this picture has something to do with my run-in with the TSA.
Steve Cummer from Pratt's School of Engineering speaks about the Invisibility Cloak at Periodic Tables. Join us on the second Tuesday of every month for a lively conversation at Broad Street Café.
Steve Cummer from Pratt's School of Engineering speaks about the Invisibility Cloak at Periodic Tables. Join us on the second Tuesday of every month for a lively conversation at Broad Street Café.
Oxford, England, Europe. Seat of learning since 1096. All taxis are required by law to display the periodic table, Einstein's theory of relativity, or something comparably erudite.
What a shame the jogger top left has yet to study a taxi that explains Sir Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation.
Samarium (Sm - 62)
Printed by Cathy Cullis
Samarium: Samarium is a rare earth metal, with a bright silver luster,
that is reasonably stable in air; it ignites in air at 150 °C. Even
with long-term storage under mineral oil, samarium is gradually
oxidized, with a grayish-yellow powder of the oxide-hydroxide being
formed. A characteristic of Samarium that I found interesting and used
as a starting point for my print is that Samarium is an 'ingredient'
in carbon arc lighting, used in the motion picture industry.
About the print: I had in mind the flickering light of a motion
picture, and the silver and grey-yellow. I wanted to use a strong
contrasting colour alongside these - so chose the teal green. I wished
to create a semi-abstract print, creating layers of interest. I
combined a series of monotype prints. There is a sketched portrait,
yellow circles indicating light and a playful use of random texture.
Black printers ink and various acrylic paints on printers paper.
About the printmaker: I am a mixed media and textiles artist, currently
based in Cambridge England, born in London. I studied Art theory and
English literature to postgrad level, but would say my art practice is
mostly self-taught. I'm interested in experimental and intuitive work.
As I often use stitch and a mix of media to convey my ideas, working on
this print was an interesting challenge for me. I have a site/blog at:
Steve Cummer from Pratt's School of Engineering speaks about the Invisibility Cloak at Periodic Tables. Join us on the second Tuesday of every month for a lively conversation at Broad Street Café.
Steve Cummer from Pratt's School of Engineering speaks about the Invisibility Cloak at Periodic Tables. Join us on the second Tuesday of every month for a lively conversation at Broad Street Café.
Uuq 114 - by Sonya Philip
"Aloha from Ununquadium - the Island of Stability or at least theoretically."
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.
My contribution to the 'Knitting the Period Table' project to help promote 2011 as the international year of chemistry.
Left Sleeve with names of bacteria. Knitted for my husband around 1993 from Lion Brand Wool Ease. Worked without a chart, directly from an old chemistry textbook (it's missing some of the older elements). This took me 10 days to knit. The entire sweater was done freehand, without calculating ahead of time except to make sure that the Period Table would fit on the front and back. The body is knitted in the round and the sleeves are steeked.
Tantalum is named after Tantalus from Greek Mythology. He was King of Sipylus and much favored of the Gods. They invited him to eat with them and he was offered ambrosia – the drink of immortality. He returned their kindness, gifts, and friendship by inviting them to a banquet where he served them the dismembered body of his own son. For this and other transgressions he was sent to Hades to spend his eternity standing in water up to his neck beneath a fruit laden tree with low branches. Whenever he reached for the fruit to satisfy his hunger, the wind blew the branches beyond his reach. Whenever he bent to quench his thirst, the water would recede before he could drink
Linoluem cut, Printed with Daniel Smith ink on Rives BFK.
Print by Jeffrey Heft
heftart.etsy.com
ВЫБОР МЕНДЕЛЕЕВА.
Mendeleev’s Choice!
"Пусть тут меня судят, как и кто хочет, мне не в чем каяться, ибо ни капиталу, ни грубой силе, ни своему достатку я ни на йоту при этом не служил, а только старался и, пока могу, буду стараться дать плодотворное, промышленно-реальное дело свое стране... Науки и промышленность — вот мои мечты"
Д.И. Менделеев
ВЫБОР МЕНДЕЛЕЕВА.
БиБиСи сообщило, что «31 января 2015 исполняется 150 лет со дня защиты Д.И.Менделеевым докторской диссертации "Рассуждение о Соединении Спирта с Водою". Некоторые называют эту дату днем рождения водки, другие считают, что юбилей этот абсолютно надуманный».
Но мы-то знаем, что дело не в водке! Менделеев не списал свой диссер у, скажем, Лавуазье, и не основал оффшорную компанию "Водку Народу!", чтобы быстренько конвертировать свои спиртосодержащие открытия в твёрдую валюту и домик в Лондоне. Он сделал свои замечательные находки достоянием всего прогрессивного человечества безвозмездно (то есть - даром). А сам продолжил заниматься своей химией и его имя вписано навечно золотыми буквами в мировую науку Периодической Системой Элементов, открытой через четыре года. Есть вещи, кторые нельзя измерить деньгами, должностями, степенями и титулами. ЗА ВЫБОР МЕНДЕЛЕЕВА!
Уточнение: На самом деле БиБиСи может ошибаться и диссертацию Менделеев защитил 31 января по старому стилю (т.е. 12 февраля), но год, 1865, назван правильно.
Mendeleev’s Choice!
According to BBC.com, 150 years ago D. Mendeleev, great Russian chemist, and a "father" of The Periodic Table, had defended his Doctor of Science dissertation. The title was "On the Combinations of Water with Alcohol, which, many believe, resulted in creation of VODKA. He could cash his dissertation, selling vodka, as many unknowns did, and become a "Russian Alfred Nobel", though he had chosen science and discovered the Periodic Law four years later. Now and forever every high school student and every chemist knows his name as a part of Periodic Table of Elements.
For Mendeleev’s Choice!
A fineprint: the actual day of Mendeleev’s dissertation defense likely was January 31st, Julian calendar, which is February, 12th, the year, 1865, is correct.
There was a very cool light up periodic table of the elements. As you see here, only a few are lit up. There were buttons you could press that would show you (by only lighting up those elements) what you were made up out of, or other things. Very cool.