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Chemical Elements

Books: Use the name of your element as a title search on the OPAC.  The library owns individual books on most the elements you will be investigating.

Websites: Click on the element in the Periodic Table.

Visual Elements from the Royal Society of Chemists – Be sure to click on the html link under Chemical Data (left side below image) for more information.

University of Chicago Interactive Periodic Table of Elements

Periodic Table of the Elements (Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Chemistry Division)

Jefferson Lab’s It’s Elemental

Subscription Databases and e-Books: In the box to the left, click on Subscription Databases.

• ed1stop: World Book (use outline and look at magazine article links for benefits and risks); Grolier’s (Americana - more complex and detailed information than GME)
• Gale e-books, especially Encyclopedia of Science
• EBSCOHost (current events)- search the name of the element (subject) and “danger*” or “risk*” (keyword)

Updated 10/5/11

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