On 7/16/2011 9:24 AM B G said...
I was just wondering how feasible it would be to build something like
the following:
Brief background, in chemistry, the ionization energy is defined as the
energy required to remove an electron from an atom. The ionization
energies of different elements follow general trends (ie moving left to
right across the periodic table, the ionization energy increases; moving
down a group the ionization energy decreases).
What if I wanted something such that we could type in a few elements and
the program would list the elements in order of increasing ionization
energy (for, say, the first ionization energy). Any suggestions for
going about this?
Build a dictionary of elements and ionization energies. Then it's
simply a matter of looking up the entered elements related values,
sorting, and displaying.
I'm trying to brush up on my chemistry and thought
the funnest way to do it would be to build a program that can do this
(if it works, I'd also like to replicate it for level of
electronegativity, atomic radius size, electron affinity, and ionization
levels 2, 3, and 4).
Extend the dictionary for the additional attributes.
Emile
I have a good idea of pseudocode that could make
this happen in terms of the rules of chemistry, but having some trouble
visualizing the actual implementation.
Thanks!
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