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Lift-the-flap periodic table

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The Periodic Table and elements

Some periodic tables may show elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 with their temporary working names and chemical symbols. The official names and chemical symbols were agreed in 2016.

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Fun facts about elements and the Periodic Table. (To find out more about the Periodic Table, click on the clip in the playlist.)

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Examine the different blocks, groups and periods that make up the Periodic Table. (Click on one of the groups, periods or blocks listed above the Periodic Table to find out more about it.)

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Explore a Periodic Table with short videos about each element. (Click on an element to access a video.)

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See what the atoms of different elements look like. (Click on an element, then click on "Explore atom.")

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Discover the origins of the Periodic Table.

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Explore an online Periodic Table. Click on an element to find out about its uses. (To print out a table, click on "Download Table PDF" at the top right.)

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See what an atom would look like if it were much, much larger.

Fascinating facts about elements

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Find out about some of the elements that make fireworks so fantastic.

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Watch sodium react with water and turn into a compound called sodium chloride. (See page 5 of your book.)

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Find out about diamonds, one of the forms of carbon, and some of the other forms of carbon. (See page 12 of your book.)

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Discover the properties of beryllium (see page 6 of your book) and find out why it makes the perfect material for the latest space telescope. (Click on a clip in the playlist for more facts about elements.)

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See frozen argon gas melt into a gas again. (Argon is a noble gas, see page 14 of your book.)

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Discover amazing facts about the noble gas xenon. (See page 14 of your book.)

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Where does gold come from, and is it possible to make gold?

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Find out more about carbon (see page 11 of your book), and the role of carbon in climate change.

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Try a quiz game and build an atom.

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Combine elements to create chemical reactions. What compounds can you make?

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Find out how to blow up a balloon with a chemical reaction.

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Test your knowledge of the Periodic Table with a flashcard quiz game.

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Do you know a metal from a non-metal?

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Match elements to their chemical names and play elements sudoku.

Periodic Table scientists

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Watch a video about the life of Marie Curie, who discovered the elements polonium and radium. The element Curium was named after her and her husband.

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The element nobelium was named after Alfred Nobel. Who was he, and what else is named after him?

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Find out more about Dmitri Mendeleev and how he developed the Periodic Table. The element Mendelevium was named after him.

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Einsteinium was named after Alfred Einstein. Find out more about the famous scientist in a short video.

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Copernicium was named after astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus. Find out how he changed the way people see the world.

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Find out about Niels Bohr, whom the element Bohrium was named after.

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About this book

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Lift-the-flap periodic table

Everything in the Universe is made up of just 118 chemical elements, all of which are listed in the Periodic Table. Lift the flaps in this informative book and discover which elements are crucial to life, which are smelly, explosive or radioactive and lots more. An essential introduction to the building blocks of chemistry, with over 125 flaps.

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Alice James

Alice James joined Usborne in 2015, after several years of working in primary schools. She absolutely loves science, and over the years has lived with chimps, spent a month in the rainforest, studied Biology at Oxford University, and grown 200 carnivorous plants (not necessarily in that order). Whilst at Usborne Alice has worked on books on all kinds of science topics, from space to energy to the periodic table.

Reader Reviews

Wonderful book!
My 5-year-old daughter LOVES this book. It's just the right mixture of personality-filled cartoon characters and concrete physical facts to capture her interest. She asks for it for her bedtime reading most days and has had us "sing" the periodic table to her so many times that she now knows it by heart up to lanthanum. She peppers us with questions about what things are made of and why they have the properties they have. This book has opened up a world of fun science conversations for our family. Thank you to the creators for the wonderful book!
E, 30th August 2019

Great book
My 5 year old son loves this book, we have both learned so much. Wish I had been given this book when I started learning chemistry at secondary school so much easier to understand than a regular chemistry textbook.
Phil, 27th April 2019

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