The Element Study Pack

A printable set of the element data on this site, laid out for a desk rather than a screen, for people who would rather not have a browser open while they work.

What is in it

118 element cards, one per element, two to a page. Each card carries the symbol, atomic number, standard atomic weight, category, group, period, block, noble-gas electron configuration, shell occupancies, state at 20 °C, melting and boiling points, density, electronegativity, common oxidation states, and the isotopes with their natural abundances. The cards are colour-coded by family using the same ten-hue system the site uses, and they print legibly in black and white as well.

A one-page periodic table at A3 and at US tabloid size, with the same colour key, sized so the symbols stay readable when it is pinned to a wall.

A trends sheet showing atomic radius, electronegativity, ionisation energy and melting point plotted across each period and down each group, so the shapes can be compared side by side rather than one graph at a time.

A formulas and constants card with the mole relationships, Avogadro's number, the molar volume of an ideal gas, the common polyatomic ions with their charges, and the solubility rules.

A blank practice table for filling in from memory, with an answer key.

Why it costs something

The data underneath is free and always will be — every element page on this site carries the same numbers, sourced and dated, with no wall in front of them. What is being sold is the typesetting: a layout that works on paper, prints cleanly, and does not need a connection.

Buying it also keeps the site going. There are no adverts here and no tracking beyond an aggregate page count, and the alternative funding model for a reference site is the one where the reference gets worse.

What you get and how

A single PDF, delivered by email after payment, with no account to create. It prints at A4 and at US Letter, and the card sheets are laid out to be cut with a guillotine or a craft knife along printed marks.

The pack is versioned against the data it was built from. When IUPAC revises a standard atomic weight — which happens most years for at least one element — the pack is rebuilt and everyone who has bought it gets the new version at no charge.

Who it is for

Three groups keep asking for something like this. Students revising for an exam that allows a data sheet, and who would rather annotate a card than scroll. Teachers who want a class set of element cards that agree with each other and with a current reference, rather than a mix of printouts from different decades. And people who work near chemistry without being chemists — technicians, machinists, jewellers, hobbyists — who need the density and melting point of a metal more often than they need anything else on the internet.

If you only ever need one number occasionally, the site is free and faster. The pack is for the case where the browser is the wrong tool.

Licence

The pack is for personal, classroom and tutoring use. Print as many copies as you need for your own students. It may not be resold or redistributed as a file.