The Elements: A Visual Exploration

The Elements: A Visual Exploration is a compelling and visually stunning guide to those basic chemical substances, combining informative (and well interlinked) text, cool, spinning VR images, and even an animation set to a theme song.

The Elements: A Visual Exploration : Home

The app's home page displays a periodic chart, with images of the elements (or the people they're named after) in their proper places.

The Elements: A Visual Exploration : Periodic Table

The introduction presents the periodic table of the elements, and discusses the different element groups and why the table is arranged the way it is.

The Elements: A Visual Exploration : Electron Orbitals

The second part of the introduction delves into electron orbitals and how the filling order of electron shells determines each element's place in the periodic table. Don't worry--you won't be quizzed.

The Elements: A Visual Exploration : Element First Page

Each element has 2 pages devoted to it. The first contains some statistics about it, diagrams of its crystalline structure and electron shells, and an image related to the element.

The Elements: A Visual Exploration : Text

An element's second page contains interlinked text describing the element and its unique characteristics, and has several spinnable images of products made from the element.

The Elements: A Visual Exploration : VR Image

For each element (except for some of the new, synthetic ones only a handful of atoms of which have been created),

The Elements: A Visual Exploration : Copernicium

An element named after astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus--who knew?

The Elements: A Visual Exploration : Credits

The Elements, published by Touch Press, was written and designed by Theodore Gray. Nick Mann did most of the photography.

The Elements: A Visual Exploration : Wolfram Alpha

Pressing the red crystal button on an element's first page brings up Wolfram Alpha data about the element.