I decided to design a simple, three-dimensional, paper construction myself, based on data from Wikipedia. Here's a Google SketchUp rendering of my first attempt:
Each cell has six pieces of information:
- Top-left: the atomic number;
- Top-right: the atomic mass (or most stable mass number in square brackets);
- The chemical symbol;
- The English name;
- Bottom-left: the element's state at zero Celsius and one atmosphere pressure; and
- Bottom-right: the date of discovery or first isolation.
There are little glue tabs to help you create the cylinders. Glue the purple strip within the gap in the lower-left corner of the main table.
So well and good, but the eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed that with the cylindrical scheme although hydrogen (Z=1) and helium (Z=2) are neighbours, helium (Z=2) and lithium (Z=3) are not.
The solution is to use a helical layout: the atomic numbers then spiral down in sequence. But in order for the construction to sit nicely on a flat surface, we need to skew the cells slightly:
I think it's fairly obvious how to make, but just in case...
First, print out the SVG on the largest sheet you can:
Then, cut out the two sections and fold forward the glue tabs:
Next, glue the lower section within the gap of the main table:
Finally, form a cylinder of the main table:
It's as simple as that. Not exactly nuclear physics...
UPDATE 2016-10-22 : As 'unlikelygrad' kindly pointed out, I misspelled "Noble Gases" in the original PDFs, so I've corrected that and uploaded the files as SVGs (there's now much better native support in browsers)
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