Little-Elementor

Little-Elementor is a little library that gives you minimum information about an element (by the given atomic number)

Classes

The program has two classes:

Orbital

Here are the Orbital's instance variables:

Name	Type
`@n`	`Integer`
`@l`	`Integer`
`@electrons_count`	`Integer`

Element

Name	Type
`@atomic_number`	`Integer`
`@is_nobel_gas`	`Boolean`
`@name`	`String`
`@period`	`Integer`
`@group`	`Integer`
`@charge`	`Integer`
`@symbol`	`String`
`@compressed_electron_configuration`	`[Orbinal's instance, [...electron_configuraition...]]`

Tip: Call ELement#human_friendly_c_e_c() for human-friendly output. There is also an electron_configuration() instance method with an optional named argument sorted (default: true) that returns an Array of instances of Orbital. And Also the Orbital#to_s method is overwrited for more human-friendly output.

Usage

require 'little_elementor'
cu = LittleElementor::Element.new(atomic_number: 30, charge: -1) # the second argument (`charge`) is optional. (default: `0`)
puts cu # output:

 # Compressed Electron Configuration: [Ar] 3D5, 4S1
 # Symbol: Cu
 # is a noble gas?: false
 # charge: -1
 # name: copper
 # atomic_number 29
 # sorted electron configuration: ["1S2", "2S2", "2P6", "3S2", "3P6", "3D10", "4S1"]
 # electron configuration: ["1S2", "2S2", "2P6", "3S2", "3P6", "4S1", "3D10"]
 # period: 4
 # group: 11

 # to create a new element instance, you can use three named arguments: symbol, atomic_number, charge (optional)

Important: Lanthanides and actinides and Transition metals are not supported yet.