Visualizing custom periodic tables¶
In this tutorial you’ll how to use mendeleev
to create customized visualizations of the periodic table.
The most convenient method to use for this is periodic_table
function from mendeleev.vis
module.
[1]:
from mendeleev.vis import periodic_table
Make sure you you have optional vis
dependencies installed when installing mendeleev
. If you are using pip install with
pip install mendeleev[vis]
To see the default visualization of the periodic table simply call the imported function
[2]:
periodic_table()
/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/mendeleev/envs/stable/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mendeleev/vis/utils.py:34: FutureWarning: In a future version, `df.iloc[:, i] = newvals` will attempt to set the values inplace instead of always setting a new array. To retain the old behavior, use either `df[df.columns[i]] = newvals` or, if columns are non-unique, `df.isetitem(i, newvals)`
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