The Periodic Table
External Resources
Linda Bloomfield’s Chemistry for potters includes a Periodic Table for Potters (below)
A Simplified Ceramic Chemistry Lesson by Linda Bloomfield
The Potter’s Dictionary of Materials and Techniques By Frank Hamer, Janet Hamer
The Potter’s dictionary of materials and techniques by Frank Hamer, 4th Edition (online)
CPK coloring
In chemistry, the CPK coloring is a popular color convention for distinguishing atoms of different chemical elements in molecular models. The scheme is named after the CPK molecular models designed by chemists Robert Corey and Linus Pauling, and improved by Walter Koltun. In 1952, Corey and Pauling published a description of space-filling models of proteins and other biomolecules that they had been building at Caltech. Their models represented atoms by faceted hardwood balls, painted in differe…
