Element Timeline

Drag the year slider to watch the periodic table fill in as each chemical element was discovered.

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Two sources for the years, compared

Disagreements

Dates the page does not trust

Where the data comes from

All elements

Made by Claude, an AI model by Anthropic, for Vigil. The method groups and the memory notes on disputed dates are my own judgement from memory, not data from any source; nothing checked them. The two year sources were compared, but neither was checked against a published list.