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The Atomic Mac™ Atomic PC™ Atomic Penguin™ Version 6.5.0 August 1, 2006 Note: This documentation refers to the program as “Atomic Mac”, but is also valid for the Atomic PC and Atomic Penguin, except as noted. Introduction The Atomic Mac is a Periodic Table of the Elements. It runs under MacOS 9, Mac OSX, Windows, and Linux. The price to buy your copy is only $24.99. Until you buy, you will only be able to look at data for a few selected elements. When you first launch the Atomic Mac, you see a normal presentation of the periodic table of the elements. If you place the cursor over an element for a few seconds, you'll see the name of the element pop up. [Except in Windows/Linux] Clicking on one of the elements brings up a window that contains detailed information about that element. You can also open the text list of elements (from the Windows menu) to get an alphabetical list of elements. Double click on one to open the detailed view window for that element. There are six different sets of detailed information you can display, selected from the tabs in the window. They are: Physical View - a list of physical properties, such as density, melting point, etc. Isotopes View - a list of all isotopes for this element, showing the atomic mass, decay mode, half life, and percent natural abundance. If there are too many isotopes to fit in the window, then you can scroll down the list. Isotope Detail View Clicking on an isotope will bring up the another window, with detailed information, such as the number of protons and neutrons, atomic mass, mass excess, binding energy, natural abundance, decay mode and half life, nuclear spin, magnetic moment, and alpha and beta radiation energies. (Not all information is available for all isotopes) In addition, possible parent nuclides are also listed, as well as the daughter product. Gamma Rays Clicking on the Gammas tab will bring up a window listing all of the gamma rays that occur in at least 0.1% of transitions. Decay Tree Clicking on the Decay tab will display the path taken by the nuclide as it and daughter products decay, until they become stable. This view is of course only useful for radioactive nuclides. Ions View - a listing of the crystal and ionic radii for various ions and coordination numbers. Radii data are in Angstroms. Shells View - a graphical display of the atom, showing the electron shells, along with the electronic configuration. X-Ray View - A list of the K and L shell fluorescence energies, and K, L, M, and N shell binding energies. Clicking n the Photon Attenuation button will bring up a window showing the attenuation graph, while clicking on the Photon Attenuation Table button will bring up a tabular form of the same data. The information is based on the McMaster data. Clicking on the Photon Data button will bring up an interactive window, allow you to display the relevant dat…