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Room of the Elements

The periodic table: 118 elements, one by one

日本語

Start from a square

Everything around us is made of elements. Today, 118 elements have names. The periodic table lines up those 118 in order of atomic number.

Tap a colored square to open that element’s page. We begin with the 19 element symbols that Japan’s national curriculum guide lists as the basics for the second year of junior high school (about age 13–14), plus nihonium, the element made and named in Japan. Every page also gives the element’s name in Japanese.

Page availableComing soonBottom two rows: lanthanoids (57–71) and actinoids (89–103)

Twenty elements to read first

About this table
Element names, symbols and atomic numbers follow the Chemical Society of Japan, “Table of Standard Atomic Weights (2026)” (in Japanese). The basic element symbols for junior high school are from the Ministry of Education (MEXT), “Commentary on the Course of Study for Lower Secondary School: Science” (2017) (in Japanese). Nihonium: RIKEN press release, 30 November 2016 (in Japanese).
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