Usually, if you want to research various chemical elements, you should be able to find almost everything you’re looking for online. However, having a good chemistry/period table desktop app can yield the same results, but faster and with a lot less effort on your part.
Kalzium is one of the best chemistry/period table apps out there. It’s a free and open-source app for Linux that’s written in Qt specifically for the KDE desktop environment.
Full-featured period table app
What makes Kalzium so good is that it manages to provide so much information to the user in a very intuitive manner. For example, you can use the app to search for information about various elements, or simply learn facts about the periodic table as a whole.
You’re provided with a plethora of useful information such as the element’s melting points, electron affinity, electron negativity, electron configuration, radii, mass, and ionization energy, just to name a few.
You also get an isotope table with different colored views of the period table, as well as a plethora of visualization tools such as a spectral line visualizer, a molecular weight calculator, a 3D molecule editor, as well as an equation solver for stoichiometric problems.
There’s more
What’s also impressive about Kalzium is the fact that it provides you with a plethora of configuration options. You can configure pretty much all aspects of the app, including the toolbar (you can build the perfect toolbar that works for your workflow).
Not only this, but the app also has a very well-documented Glossary section that allows you to understand terminology better.
Conclusion
Kalzium is by no means a new app and, even though it doesn’t have the same level of polish as most other modern chemistry apps (usually for mobile devices), it has all the right tools to stay relevant.
The fact that it still receives updates and provides a plethora of configuration options is also nice.
