The Colourful Nuclide Chart gives easy access to a wide variety of nuclear properties, and allows you to save high quality chart images for publications, presentations and outreach.

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The Colourful Nuclide Chart uses external libraries including:

• Threejs
• jQuery
• Font Awesome

Current property

Data selection

N and Z range

Data limits

Quantity to plot

Single [D₁(N,Z)] and double [D₂(N,Z)] difference modes for quantity V(N,Z) are defined as follows:

D₁ = [V(N+dN,Z+dZ)-V(N-dN,Z-dZ)]/2(dZ²+dN²)^1/2
D₂ = [V(N+dN,Z+dZ)-2V(N,Z)+V(N-dN,Z-dZ)]/2(dZ²+dN²)^1/2

where dN and dZ are 0 or 1 in the case of D₁ and 2 in the case of D₂. The direction of the difference is set by the radio button. These differences approximate the first and second derivatives of quantity V(N,Z). For some introductory discussions on this see:

E. C. Simpson and M. Shelley
Nuclear cartography: patterns in binding energies and subatomic structure
Physics Education 52, 064002 (2017)

Nuclides

Background

Options

For most users, it is recommended to use the 2D Raster or 3D engines. The 2D Vector engine can be used to export to SVG or PDF vector graphics files, but is slower than the 2D Raster.

Font

Key

Save to file

The available options to save depend on the chosen engine. If you require a different file format, try changing the engine option on the Display tab. For some formats the saving can take some time - please be patient.

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Update (2022-05-30)

First release of the Colourful Nuclide Chart Version 2.

Update (2022-02-20)

First testing release of the Colourful Nuclide Chart Version 2.

Troubleshooting