The applied periodic table

Here is something I didn’t know about, and it has been published since 2005: a periodic table of the elements organized around their applications.

The idea is to put in each cell of the table an illustration showing everyday objects where that chemical element is used:

For example, here is Copper (Cu):

And here are Aluminum (Al), Silicon (Si) and Phosphorus (P):

The table is available for free. You can download it from here. It was published by the British chemical and pharmaceutical industry, and the sponsors include British Petroleum (ouch).

In any case I think it is a brilliant way to spread knowledge. It would be great to have a visualization like this in our language, don’t you think?