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.

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

periodic_table()

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