A home made periodic table

This project is interesting in its own right, and links to a cool tool by the same author

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/01/international-object-sizing-tool...

for showing the size of photographs, which I just told my Facebook friends about and printed out for my children, who are practicing photography.

The heavy-duty version of a periodic table table is that made by Theodore Gray,

http://www.theodoregray.com/periodictable/

who is quite a fan of the periodic table.

http://periodictable.com/

Cool project! A few easy ideas:

Zn: outside of a zinc/carbon battery

He: balloons

Ni: welding rods

Am: smoke detector sensor

Pt/Ir: spark plug central electrodes (your mechanic's more likely to give you an old spark plug than a whole cat converter ;)

Hg: thermometer

Trying to think up easy/cheap ways to get elements is quite fun

Very neat idea. Reminds me of birding (finding and recording birds seen). If he were to find a radioactive item, presumably the bottles (glass, with polypropylene and polyvinyl tops) wouldn't work. Wonder what he'd use then. Also calls to mind the Elements exhibit at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles (http://www.griffithobservatory.org/exhibits/bhallofsky.html).

Nice project. I really like the book you used the poster from. My boys devour it. The quirky little elements remind me of OS-tans.

I wanted to make something similar with my boys. How did you choose to attach the vials? Glue?

Great project!

What do you think is hardest to obtain element with a relatively low atomic number?