10 He | 11Li | 12Be | 13B | 14 C | 15N | 16O | 17F | 18Ne | 19Na | 20Mg | |
... | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
18B | 19C | 20N | 21O | 22F | 23Ne | 24Na | 25Mg | 26Al
|
27Si | 28P | 29S |
The isotope table article has caused trouble for several users because it is too big for certain web browsers' editors (more than 90 kB), e.g. typographical errors have been introduced by the software. Partly to reduce file size (less than 45 kB) and partly to make the isotope table easier to edit, a few templates have been introduced for use in this article.
Here are instructions for using the templates, plus an excerpt from the isotope table code and a demonstration of what the isotope table will look like. See for instance the links to Tritium and Carbon-14, and the two-coloured cell of Al-26.
Template | Syntax | Effective text |
---|---|---|
Explanation and comments | ||
{{ Iso1}} | {{Iso1|Nr|Symbol|X}} | title="{{Iso/X/text}}" style="background:{{Iso/X}};" | <small><sup>Nr</sup></small>Symbol |
{{Iso1|Nr|Symbol}} | title="Unstable" style="background:white;" | <small><sup>Nr</sup></small>Symbol | |
One-coloured cells X is member of "ROYGBIV-" and represents a red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet or white background colour of a whole table cell. If X is omitted, the colour defaults to white. Nr and Symbol represent atomic number and chemical symbol and are rendered as NrSymbol. Symbol may contain links, e.g. | ||
{{ Iso2}} | {{Iso2|Nr|Symbol|X|Z}} | title="Isotope: {{Iso/X/text}}; Nuclear isomer: {{Iso/Z/text}}" style="background:{{Iso/Z}};" | <div style="background:{{Iso/X}};"> <small><sup>Nr</sup></small>Symbol</div> |
{{Iso2|Nr|Symbol|X}} | title="Isotope: {{Iso/X/text}}; Nuclear isomer: Unstable" style="background:white;" | <div style="background:{{Iso/X}};"> <small><sup>Nr</sup></small>Symbol</div> | |
Two-coloured cells X and Z are members of "ROYGBIV-" as mentioned above. X is the background colour of the text, and Z is the border colour of the table cell. If Z is omitted, the border defaults to white. Nr and Symbol are the same as above. In principle this template could be used for both one- and two-coloured cells. However, this template yields more text than the first one, calls the double number of sub-templates, and also displays misleading popup titles if used in one-coloured cells. Therefore it should only be used when there is actually a need for two colours. | ||
The following templates are generally not used independently, but are called by Iso1 and Iso2 using the variables X and Z:
|
category | color | category | color |
---|---|---|---|
- | V | ||
I | B | ||
G | Y | ||
O | R |
Whereever you want to add the proton or neutron drip line to the chart, add the option |drip=
with one of the values t (top), r (right), tr (top-right), tl (top-left), trb (top-right-bottom), tb (top-bottom), tlr (top-left-right), b (bottom), l (left), bl (bottom-left), br (bottom-right), blr (bottom-left-right), lr (left-right), or tlb (top-left-bottom) to the cell template Iso1 or Iso2, as demonstrated in the example below. To avoid confusion, only specify drip lines from inner cells.
{{Iso2|1070|Uxq|O|drip=trb}}
1070Uxq
|
Or in empty cells: {{Iso1|drip=bl}}
| ||||||||||||||||
|
The background colour of each isotope's cell indicates the isotope's physical half-life. See colour chart to the right. Differently coloured borders indicate half-lives of the most stable nuclear isomer states.
To insert this colour chart in an article, add the following tag:
{{isotope colour chart}}
The template takes an optional, nameless parameter that may be used to add styles such as table width or font effects, or override the default styles. The styles are given as a semicolon-separated list using colon as the assignment operator, e.g.:
background:pink; font-style:italic;
The parameter is separated from the template name with a pipe ("|"), and the full template call becomes:
{{isotope colour chart | background:pink; font-style:italic;}}
The result is shown to the lower right.
{| cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="1" width="100%" |+ '''List of known [[isotope]]s''' |- ![[proton|p]] → !1 !2 ... |- !2 |{{Iso1|3|[[Tritium|T]]|O}} |{{Iso1|4|[[Helium-4|He]]|R}} |{{Iso1|5|Li}} |{{Iso1|6|Be}} |{{Iso1|7|B }} |{{Iso1|8|C }} ![[Nitrogen|N]] !8 |- !3 |{{Iso1|4|[[Hydrogen-4|H]]}} |{{Iso1|5|[[Exotic helium isotopes|He]]}} |{{Iso1|6|Li|R}} |{{Iso1|7|Be|I}} |{{Iso1|8|B }} |{{Iso1|9|C }} |{{Iso1|10|N }} ![[Oxygen|O]] !9 ... |- | !8 |{{Iso1|10|[[Exotic helium isotopes|He]]}} |{{Iso1|11|Li}} |{{Iso1|12|Be}} |{{Iso1|13|B }} |{{Iso1|14|[[Carbon-14|C]]|O}} |{{Iso1|15|N |R}} |{{Iso1|16|O |R}} |{{Iso1|17|F }} |{{Iso1|18|Ne}} |{{Iso1|19|Na}} |{{Iso1|20|Mg}} ![[Aluminium|Al]] !14 ... |- |colspan="4"| !13 |{{Iso1|18|B }} |{{Iso1|19|C }} |{{Iso1|20|N }} |{{Iso1|21|O }} |{{Iso1|22|F }} |{{Iso1|23|Ne}} |{{Iso1|24|Na}} |{{Iso1|25|Mg|R}} |{{Iso2|26|Al|Y}} |{{Iso1|27|Si}} |{{Iso1|28|P }} |{{Iso1|29|S }} | ![[Argon|Ar]] !19 ... |} |
p → | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n ↓ | H | He | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
0 | 1 H | Li | Be | 5 | 6 | |||||||||||||||
1 | 2 D | 3 He | 4Li | 5Be | B | C | 7 | |||||||||||||
2 | 3 T | 4 He | 5Li | 6Be | 7B | 8C | N | 8 | ||||||||||||
3 | 4 H | 5 He | 6Li | 7Be | 8B | 9C | 10N | O | 9 | |||||||||||
4 | 5 H | 6 He | 7Li | 8Be | 9B | 10C | 11N | 12O | F | 10 | ||||||||||
5 | 6 H | 7 He | 8Li | 9Be | 10B | 11C | 12N | 13O | 14F | Ne | 11 | |||||||||
6 | 7 H | 8 He | 9Li | 10Be | 11B | 12 C | 13N | 14O | 15F | 16Ne | Na | 12 | ||||||||
7 | 9 He | 10Li | 11Be | 12B | 13 C | 14 N | 15O | 16F | 17Ne | 18Na | Mg | 13 | ||||||||
8 | 10 He | 11Li | 12Be | 13B | 14 C | 15N | 16O | 17F | 18Ne | 19Na | 20Mg | Al | 14 | |||||||
9 | 12Li | 13Be | 14B | 15C | 16N | 17O | 18F | 19Ne | 20Na | 21Mg | 22Al | Si | 15 | |||||||
10 | 14Be | 15B | 16C | 17N | 18O | 19F | 20Ne | 21Na | 22Mg | 23Al | P | 16 | ||||||||
11 | 16B | 17C | 18N | 19O | 20F | 21Ne | 22Na | 23Mg | 24Al | 25Si | S | 17 | ||||||||
12 | 17B | 18C | 19N | 20O | 21F | 22Ne | 23Na | 24Mg | 25Al | 26Si | 27P | Cl | 18 | |||||||
13 | 18B | 19C | 20N | 21O | 22F | 23Ne | 24Na | 25Mg | 26Al
|
27Si | 28P | 29S | Ar | 19 | ||||||
14 | 19B | 20C | 21N | 22O | 23F | 24Ne | 25Na | 26Mg | 27Al | 28Si | 29P | 30S | 31Cl | K | 20 | |||||
15 | 21C | 22N | 23O | 24F | 25Ne | 26Na | 27Mg | 28Al | 29Si | 30P | 31S | 32Cl | 33Ar | Ca |
Popup titles displaying half-lives when hovering over table cells were added in January 2006. For background and discussion see Talk:Isotope table (complete)#Alternatives for displaying colour legend.
Presumably this was for performance, but there was no documentation and it was by an anon IP. Is there any way we can tell how this change actually affects performance? -- JWB 21:44, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Here is a proposal for splitting the longer-lived categories into more precise bands, with the colors based on interpolation of the present ones. Red is left as stable here, so this proposal is disjoint from the one at Talk:Isotope table (complete)#Red to gray?. Or, if we do adopt gray for stable, the 100ky+ categories can be shifted down one color, as the colors for 10k-100k and 100k-1m do not look very distinct, at least on my monitor. -- JWB 16:53, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
145Gd | <1 day |
146Gd | 1–10 days |
149Gd | 10–100 days |
153Gd | 100d–1 year |
147Pm | 1-10 years |
148Gd | 10–100 years |
241Am | 100-1000 years |
14C | 1000-10000 years |
239Pu | 10k–100k years |
99Tc | 100k-1m years |
150Gd | 1m-10m years |
129I | 10m-103m years |
238U | 700m-14b years |
152Gd | 38b-50q years |
158Gd | Stable |
I'm going to give gray (#BBB) a try as nobody has objected. Discuss here or at
Talk:Isotope table (complete)#Red to gray?. --
JWB
19:04, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
I liked the Isotope table, but found the coloring scheme a bit counter-intuitive: it seemed to me that "energetic" colors on the warm end of the spectrum should represent the more unstable elements, while cooler colors should go on the more stable end of the scale. Here's a proposed scheme:
145Gd | <1 day |
146Gd | 1-10 days |
149Gd | 10-100 days |
153Gd | 100d–10 years |
148Gd | 10-10,000 years |
150Gd | 10k–103m years |
152Gd | >700m years |
158Gd | Stable |
What do you think? -- Erudy ( talk) 20:16, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
145 Gd | <1 day |
146 Gd | 1-10 days |
149 Gd | 10-100 days |
153 Gd | 100d–10 year |
148 Gd | 10-10,000 years |
150 Gd | 10k–103m years |
152 Gd | >700m years |
158 Gd | Stable |
Erudy ( talk) 15:35, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
This is also being discussed at Talk:Isotope table (complete)#Red to gray?. Physical color temperature and traditional color symbolism give opposite results. There is also the possibility of using brightness or saturation to indicate stability and reserving color for decay mode or something else, for example as in the unimplemented Wikipedia:WikiProject_Isotopes#Color_scheme. In any case, I want to split up the halflife categories into finer ones. -- JWB ( talk) 17:55, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
10 He | 11Li | 12Be | 13B | 14 C | 15N | 16O | 17F | 18Ne | 19Na | 20Mg | |
... | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
18B | 19C | 20N | 21O | 22F | 23Ne | 24Na | 25Mg | 26Al
|
27Si | 28P | 29S |
The isotope table article has caused trouble for several users because it is too big for certain web browsers' editors (more than 90 kB), e.g. typographical errors have been introduced by the software. Partly to reduce file size (less than 45 kB) and partly to make the isotope table easier to edit, a few templates have been introduced for use in this article.
Here are instructions for using the templates, plus an excerpt from the isotope table code and a demonstration of what the isotope table will look like. See for instance the links to Tritium and Carbon-14, and the two-coloured cell of Al-26.
Template | Syntax | Effective text |
---|---|---|
Explanation and comments | ||
{{ Iso1}} | {{Iso1|Nr|Symbol|X}} | title="{{Iso/X/text}}" style="background:{{Iso/X}};" | <small><sup>Nr</sup></small>Symbol |
{{Iso1|Nr|Symbol}} | title="Unstable" style="background:white;" | <small><sup>Nr</sup></small>Symbol | |
One-coloured cells X is member of "ROYGBIV-" and represents a red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet or white background colour of a whole table cell. If X is omitted, the colour defaults to white. Nr and Symbol represent atomic number and chemical symbol and are rendered as NrSymbol. Symbol may contain links, e.g. | ||
{{ Iso2}} | {{Iso2|Nr|Symbol|X|Z}} | title="Isotope: {{Iso/X/text}}; Nuclear isomer: {{Iso/Z/text}}" style="background:{{Iso/Z}};" | <div style="background:{{Iso/X}};"> <small><sup>Nr</sup></small>Symbol</div> |
{{Iso2|Nr|Symbol|X}} | title="Isotope: {{Iso/X/text}}; Nuclear isomer: Unstable" style="background:white;" | <div style="background:{{Iso/X}};"> <small><sup>Nr</sup></small>Symbol</div> | |
Two-coloured cells X and Z are members of "ROYGBIV-" as mentioned above. X is the background colour of the text, and Z is the border colour of the table cell. If Z is omitted, the border defaults to white. Nr and Symbol are the same as above. In principle this template could be used for both one- and two-coloured cells. However, this template yields more text than the first one, calls the double number of sub-templates, and also displays misleading popup titles if used in one-coloured cells. Therefore it should only be used when there is actually a need for two colours. | ||
The following templates are generally not used independently, but are called by Iso1 and Iso2 using the variables X and Z:
|
category | color | category | color |
---|---|---|---|
- | V | ||
I | B | ||
G | Y | ||
O | R |
Whereever you want to add the proton or neutron drip line to the chart, add the option |drip=
with one of the values t (top), r (right), tr (top-right), tl (top-left), trb (top-right-bottom), tb (top-bottom), tlr (top-left-right), b (bottom), l (left), bl (bottom-left), br (bottom-right), blr (bottom-left-right), lr (left-right), or tlb (top-left-bottom) to the cell template Iso1 or Iso2, as demonstrated in the example below. To avoid confusion, only specify drip lines from inner cells.
{{Iso2|1070|Uxq|O|drip=trb}}
1070Uxq
|
Or in empty cells: {{Iso1|drip=bl}}
| ||||||||||||||||
|
The background colour of each isotope's cell indicates the isotope's physical half-life. See colour chart to the right. Differently coloured borders indicate half-lives of the most stable nuclear isomer states.
To insert this colour chart in an article, add the following tag:
{{isotope colour chart}}
The template takes an optional, nameless parameter that may be used to add styles such as table width or font effects, or override the default styles. The styles are given as a semicolon-separated list using colon as the assignment operator, e.g.:
background:pink; font-style:italic;
The parameter is separated from the template name with a pipe ("|"), and the full template call becomes:
{{isotope colour chart | background:pink; font-style:italic;}}
The result is shown to the lower right.
{| cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="1" width="100%" |+ '''List of known [[isotope]]s''' |- ![[proton|p]] → !1 !2 ... |- !2 |{{Iso1|3|[[Tritium|T]]|O}} |{{Iso1|4|[[Helium-4|He]]|R}} |{{Iso1|5|Li}} |{{Iso1|6|Be}} |{{Iso1|7|B }} |{{Iso1|8|C }} ![[Nitrogen|N]] !8 |- !3 |{{Iso1|4|[[Hydrogen-4|H]]}} |{{Iso1|5|[[Exotic helium isotopes|He]]}} |{{Iso1|6|Li|R}} |{{Iso1|7|Be|I}} |{{Iso1|8|B }} |{{Iso1|9|C }} |{{Iso1|10|N }} ![[Oxygen|O]] !9 ... |- | !8 |{{Iso1|10|[[Exotic helium isotopes|He]]}} |{{Iso1|11|Li}} |{{Iso1|12|Be}} |{{Iso1|13|B }} |{{Iso1|14|[[Carbon-14|C]]|O}} |{{Iso1|15|N |R}} |{{Iso1|16|O |R}} |{{Iso1|17|F }} |{{Iso1|18|Ne}} |{{Iso1|19|Na}} |{{Iso1|20|Mg}} ![[Aluminium|Al]] !14 ... |- |colspan="4"| !13 |{{Iso1|18|B }} |{{Iso1|19|C }} |{{Iso1|20|N }} |{{Iso1|21|O }} |{{Iso1|22|F }} |{{Iso1|23|Ne}} |{{Iso1|24|Na}} |{{Iso1|25|Mg|R}} |{{Iso2|26|Al|Y}} |{{Iso1|27|Si}} |{{Iso1|28|P }} |{{Iso1|29|S }} | ![[Argon|Ar]] !19 ... |} |
p → | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n ↓ | H | He | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
0 | 1 H | Li | Be | 5 | 6 | |||||||||||||||
1 | 2 D | 3 He | 4Li | 5Be | B | C | 7 | |||||||||||||
2 | 3 T | 4 He | 5Li | 6Be | 7B | 8C | N | 8 | ||||||||||||
3 | 4 H | 5 He | 6Li | 7Be | 8B | 9C | 10N | O | 9 | |||||||||||
4 | 5 H | 6 He | 7Li | 8Be | 9B | 10C | 11N | 12O | F | 10 | ||||||||||
5 | 6 H | 7 He | 8Li | 9Be | 10B | 11C | 12N | 13O | 14F | Ne | 11 | |||||||||
6 | 7 H | 8 He | 9Li | 10Be | 11B | 12 C | 13N | 14O | 15F | 16Ne | Na | 12 | ||||||||
7 | 9 He | 10Li | 11Be | 12B | 13 C | 14 N | 15O | 16F | 17Ne | 18Na | Mg | 13 | ||||||||
8 | 10 He | 11Li | 12Be | 13B | 14 C | 15N | 16O | 17F | 18Ne | 19Na | 20Mg | Al | 14 | |||||||
9 | 12Li | 13Be | 14B | 15C | 16N | 17O | 18F | 19Ne | 20Na | 21Mg | 22Al | Si | 15 | |||||||
10 | 14Be | 15B | 16C | 17N | 18O | 19F | 20Ne | 21Na | 22Mg | 23Al | P | 16 | ||||||||
11 | 16B | 17C | 18N | 19O | 20F | 21Ne | 22Na | 23Mg | 24Al | 25Si | S | 17 | ||||||||
12 | 17B | 18C | 19N | 20O | 21F | 22Ne | 23Na | 24Mg | 25Al | 26Si | 27P | Cl | 18 | |||||||
13 | 18B | 19C | 20N | 21O | 22F | 23Ne | 24Na | 25Mg | 26Al
|
27Si | 28P | 29S | Ar | 19 | ||||||
14 | 19B | 20C | 21N | 22O | 23F | 24Ne | 25Na | 26Mg | 27Al | 28Si | 29P | 30S | 31Cl | K | 20 | |||||
15 | 21C | 22N | 23O | 24F | 25Ne | 26Na | 27Mg | 28Al | 29Si | 30P | 31S | 32Cl | 33Ar | Ca |
Popup titles displaying half-lives when hovering over table cells were added in January 2006. For background and discussion see Talk:Isotope table (complete)#Alternatives for displaying colour legend.
Presumably this was for performance, but there was no documentation and it was by an anon IP. Is there any way we can tell how this change actually affects performance? -- JWB 21:44, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Here is a proposal for splitting the longer-lived categories into more precise bands, with the colors based on interpolation of the present ones. Red is left as stable here, so this proposal is disjoint from the one at Talk:Isotope table (complete)#Red to gray?. Or, if we do adopt gray for stable, the 100ky+ categories can be shifted down one color, as the colors for 10k-100k and 100k-1m do not look very distinct, at least on my monitor. -- JWB 16:53, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
145Gd | <1 day |
146Gd | 1–10 days |
149Gd | 10–100 days |
153Gd | 100d–1 year |
147Pm | 1-10 years |
148Gd | 10–100 years |
241Am | 100-1000 years |
14C | 1000-10000 years |
239Pu | 10k–100k years |
99Tc | 100k-1m years |
150Gd | 1m-10m years |
129I | 10m-103m years |
238U | 700m-14b years |
152Gd | 38b-50q years |
158Gd | Stable |
I'm going to give gray (#BBB) a try as nobody has objected. Discuss here or at
Talk:Isotope table (complete)#Red to gray?. --
JWB
19:04, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
I liked the Isotope table, but found the coloring scheme a bit counter-intuitive: it seemed to me that "energetic" colors on the warm end of the spectrum should represent the more unstable elements, while cooler colors should go on the more stable end of the scale. Here's a proposed scheme:
145Gd | <1 day |
146Gd | 1-10 days |
149Gd | 10-100 days |
153Gd | 100d–10 years |
148Gd | 10-10,000 years |
150Gd | 10k–103m years |
152Gd | >700m years |
158Gd | Stable |
What do you think? -- Erudy ( talk) 20:16, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
145 Gd | <1 day |
146 Gd | 1-10 days |
149 Gd | 10-100 days |
153 Gd | 100d–10 year |
148 Gd | 10-10,000 years |
150 Gd | 10k–103m years |
152 Gd | >700m years |
158 Gd | Stable |
Erudy ( talk) 15:35, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
This is also being discussed at Talk:Isotope table (complete)#Red to gray?. Physical color temperature and traditional color symbolism give opposite results. There is also the possibility of using brightness or saturation to indicate stability and reserving color for decay mode or something else, for example as in the unimplemented Wikipedia:WikiProject_Isotopes#Color_scheme. In any case, I want to split up the halflife categories into finer ones. -- JWB ( talk) 17:55, 18 December 2007 (UTC)