Talk:List of elements by density

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Thanks to everyone who edited this page. I created a very simple version of this page in January 2005. Now I barely recognize it and I think it is great! I love the pictures of the elements, the descriptions of the elements and the notes. I am very proud that of all the "List of Elements by..." pages, this is by far the most interesting IMHO. I will change the column head of Mohs' Hardness into Description/Mohs' Hardness - I think this is less confusing since there are descriptions in addition to the Mohs' Hardness. Thanks for all the edits! -- FrankH 06:45, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sources needed

Especially for some of the shorter-lived elements, like Astatine, Hassium or element 112, we really need to be citing sources (well, technically we should cite everything but it is most urgent when it is hard to tell what is measured, what is based on some relatively sound theoretical calculation, and what is just pulled out of thin air). I'm not (yet at least) going to litter the page with {{Fact}} tags, but WP:ATT does apply. Perhaps Isotopes_of_ununbium gives some idea of how to cite sources without totally messing up a tabular presentation. Kingdon 13:09, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Number densities

I don't know that's it's name but it would be useful to have the number of atoms per volume. JunCTionS 21:21, 02 July 2007 (UTC)

BUMP. I already did an Calc sheet where I calculated this dividing the density by the mass from the List of elements by atomic mass and multiplying it by the Avogadro constant. I don't know an easy way to export this into the proper column of the wiki, so I'll try to do it later when I have some time. But I think the name of the column needs aproval. I'm thinking maybe just plain: number of atoms per cm³.JunCTionS 20:52, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

So I did it and here it is... but I didn't get the sort template right on it. also as far as I know about WP rules I shouldn't post such a mayor change without some support, specially if I don't know which title it should have. So I'd love it if somebody would collaborate with me on this. JunCTionS 19:49, 13 April 2008 (UTC)