- Price$9.99
- CategoryBooks
- Versions3 archived
- Installable3 of 3
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- SellerTouch Press
- Bundle IDcom.elementcollection.elementsipad
RequirementsCompatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Report an issueFrom Theodore Gray comes a beautifully produced app introducing and educating users on the elements of the periodic table and how they combine to form the world around us. The Elements is a rich and engaging love story, told in words and pictures - allowing you to experience the beauty and fascination of the building blocks of our universe in a way you've never seen before.
Start off on a living periodic table where every element is shown with a smoothly rotating sample. To read about gold, tap the gold nugget. Immediately you see the sample filling the screen, photographed to razor sharpness and rotating around a complete circle in front of your eyes. Enjoy the extensive array of facts and figures. Next find a fascinating story about the element, surrounded by carefully photographed objects representing it. Every one of these objects, well over 500 in total, is a freely rotatable, live object that you can examine from all sides and pinch zoom to see in unprecedented detail.
Touch the element name at the top of the page and you can see that element’s name in over a dozen different languages. Choose one and you’ll find that the entire book, stories, captions and all, switches to that language: The Elements includes both the full English original text and over a dozen full translations.
Pinch-zoom or tap any object to bring it up full screen, where you can split into a pair of stereo 3D images, allowing you to see all 500 objects pop off the screen in 3D, and you can spin the objects, in 3D, with the touch of a finger.
This book will show everyone there’s a lot more to the periodic table than a bunch of numbers and letters.
Features include:
• Beautifully composed pages for every Element in the periodic table • Fun stories and fascinating facts • All objects pinch-zoom with amazing detail and rotate in 3D • Engaging introduction explaining the structure of the periodic table • Engaging introduction explaining the structure of the periodic table • Fully translated into English, Catalan, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
------------ Reviews:
“The iPad’s splendor and power may be best shown by The Elements... it’s not like any ebook you’ve seen. The periodic table of elements comes to life.” – USA Today
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Ratings Over Time
sampled from 10 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 5, 2010 | — | — | 57 | $13.99 |
| January 8, 2011 | 1.0.2.1 | — | 1,396 | $13.99 |
| January 12, 2012 | — | — | 1,585 | $13.99 |
| January 20, 2013 | — | — | 1,791 | $13.99 |
| December 3, 2016 | 2.0.7 | — | 1,976 | $13.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25Cons: -HUGE: 1.7GB for high resolution images that rotate that could be just as easily shown in 1-4 images each (instead of the 40+ of each object). -COSTLY: $9 for information that is easily obtained anywhere, like Wikipedia (or WolframAlpha which it even links to). (For example, the amazingly useful and slick “Sky Guide AR” app is only $3) -LACKING INFO: each element has a few interesting tid-bits crammed in the main page (for example, you can’t expand the emission spectrum graph), and then a short paragraph or two overview on the next page. It just leaves you wanting more info that just isn’t there. Pros: -Well packaged, slick interface I got it to encourage my daughter to get interested in the elements, but interest quickly fades after seeing “ooh, the images spin”. I’d still give it only 3 stars if it were 100MB and $1. Save yourself memory/space on your device and money, skip this app that’s just bells and whistles, and just use Wikipedia or something else.
Touch Press is great and all, but please don’t brand each app icon. It’s an eyesore.
You pay $20 for the Periodic Table that can be looked up online for free
I loved this app, it was very well done, and the photography was splendid. But there are some new elements that need to be updated, and I have some ideas: Nihonium: Flag or coat of arms of Japan Moscovium: Same thing but with the Moscow Oblast Tennessine: Same thing but with Tennessee Oganesson: A picture of Yuri Oganessian Thanks, bye, great job! :D
This has got to be one of the most brilliant educational apps for the iPad. Even if you think you aren’t into chemistry or physics, the pictures and stories make this VERY worthwhile. Check it out!!
まずびっくりしたのは、「元素の歌」が入っていて、最初だけ、アプリ起動と同時にそれが再生されます。 更に、このアプリは多言語翻訳されており、私の様な科学的な英語が得意でない者も読めます。 タイトルの通りなのですが、元素の歌について、 全ての言語で英語の歌が流れるのですが 日本語に設定すると、可愛い娘さん達が歌います。 日本語分かる方はラッキーですよ。
This app is very fun. It shows stuff about every element, and it’s just like the book. Except you can make the stuff spin. But what I like about it is that it’s only $9.99 (that’s not expensive). I was thinking of getting it four star review but I think five should be better. There’s a reason why most people give it a five star review. I wanted to give it a four star review because some of the stuff from the book are not in here. But grabs my attention most of all is that it says that seaborgium (106) is the first element to be named after a person that was still alive. but this is not true. Einsteinium (99) was created in 1952. And Albert Einstein (born 1879)died in 1955. If it is true that element 106 is the first element to be named after someone that was still alive, then Einstein must have been named Einstein after Einstein died (same with fermium). This is my very first review.
Even if you know nothing about chemistry! I wish I had this back when I was in high school. The graphics were really good and worked without any internet connection, which I appreciated.
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