The Elements by Theodore Gray

The Elements by Theodore Gray

By NatureGuides Ltd.

  • Category: Education
  • Release Date: 2010-04-01
  • Current Version: 3.1.3
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 1.55 GB
  • Developer: NatureGuides Ltd.
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 12.0
Score: 4.56189
4.56189
From 105 Ratings

Description

From 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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Reviews

  • Flerovium pollution.

    5
    By FinSvcGuy
    This is really amazing, this is the book but better, but I noticed a bug(I think). It says that the oceans are 0.00044% Flerovium, and this is more abundant than calcium, which is kind o common in shells. Also I’m pretty sure only a few atoms, maybe 80, have been made. Please fix this.
  • Amazing

    5
    By Dormouse1
    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!!
  • 118

    1
    By JQKY
    There are 118 elements on the periodic table. I can only view 103.
  • Nice support and a great App!

    5
    By kk100
    Not many apps are supported for a decade but this app will be. They’ve remained committed to it and many are grateful!
  • Literally the best thing ever

    5
    By TheArbiter1131
    Theodore Grey is an amazing writer and this shows. It is basically the book (which I love to death, it is the reason why I love chemistry so much I decided to major in it) except with moving 3D images and an awesome song! Highly recommend. If I could suggest one thing, I wish that this app included the extra info that is is the iPad version, but this is still awesome! 6/5
  • 歌が日本バージョンだけ特別に用意してあります。

    5
    By 聖★お喪女さん
    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。
  • Amazing app!!! But it NEVER crashed on me.

    5
    By SophieBoo1
    I usually get too bored playing normal apps. This the best thing to use especially when I get bored. Also, when I don’t have the book itself (yes I do have the book this app is based on). I am not sure if (other ;3) kids would like this but...at least I do...
  • The must-have science app...

    5
    By a stuuuuudent
    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.
  • Update the UI

    3
    By Selecby
    Please update the UI to match modern apps, you’re still using skeuomorphic buttons and the like.
  • Pretty, but that’s it.

    1
    By p___s
    Cons: -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.

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