NAME

       gperiodic - periodic table application

SYNOPSIS

       gperiodic [option(s)] [element_symbol | atomic_number]

DESCRIPTION

       gperiodic is a small X/GTK+-based program which allows you to browse through a periodic table of chemical
       elements,  and  view  somewhat  detailed information on each of the elements.  118 elements are currently
       listed.

OPTIONS

       Zero options will start gperiodic.

       -h     Show the help screen.

       -c <Temp>
              Color the elements according to their phase at temperature <Temp> in Kelvins.

       -D     Dump the periodic table.

       -v     Be verbose.

       Possible arguments:

       element_symbol | atomic_number
              Display information on the element with the given element symbol or atomic number.  The output  is
              UTF-8 encoded (see Debian bug #466231).

AUTHOR

       The   program   was   originally  written  by  Kyle  R.  Burton.  The  current  author  is  Jonas  Frantz
       <jonas.frantz@helsinki.fi>.

       This manual page was written by Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org>, for  the  Debian  GNU/Linux  system
       (but may be used by others).

gperiodic                                         June 10, 2007                                     GPERIODIC(1)