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I wish there is a version of the element cards and table that features mainly the electronic structures. There is a separate orbitals table, but I'd rather have electron configurations in diagram form on the individual elements instead.

On a side note, the following website is an amazing visualization for all of the electron orbital shapes:

https://winter.group.shef.ac.uk/orbitron/

Click on the individual orbital entries, and at the top of each page there is a "Dots!" tab that lets you interact with density clouds in 3D.



You might be interested in the orbitals laser crystal sculptures that he designed with Bathsheba.

https://bathsheba.com/crystal/orbitals/


That's super cool. My science spouse would love to have one of those to knock off their desk at work.


It blew my mind when I found out orbitals can be thought of as harmonic modes of a sphere.

Sad that it took until 4th year quantum chemistry to find that out.


Same here! Spherical harmonics finally explained why the 3d orbital has the donut shape. Why isn't this taught in high school?!


https://ptable.com/#Electrons/HOAO

Shows the highest occupied atomic orbital in full 3D you can rotate. Select any slot in the Hund diagram to see that orbital instead.


This is great! The format isn't 100% what I had in mind but the functionality is just what I needed! I think I can use it as a basis to build my own simplified presentation that I wanted.



You should have a browse through The INTERNET Database of Periodic Tables with more than 1300 you might find a few similar to your interest.

[1] https://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php...




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