Kalzium quick start guide
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Chapter 2. Kalzium quick start guide

Here is Kalzium the first time you run it, either from the K menu->Edutainment->Science->Kalzium or with Alt+F2 and entering kalzium into the field.


Kalzium main window

Kalzium is divided in a sidebar on the left (in red, 1) and the table view (in blue, 2) which shows the elements of the periodic table. The standard menubar allows you to choose what you want to display and the status bar reports facts. You can hide the sidebar using the View->Hide Sidebar menu.

When you move the mouse cursor on an element of the table, a tooltip appears with a picture of this element if available, its number and its mass. In the sidebar is displayed an overview of the current element in the Overview tab.

You can disable the tooltips using the View->Hide tooltip menu.

You can choose several views for the table: display the elements per families, per groups, per crystal structure, depending on their acidic behaviour, etc.. You can change all that in the menubar in the View->Look menu.

If you want to know facts about a precise element, click on it in the table and the information dialog will be displayed.


Information dialog

You can plot data using the Tools->Plot Data menu. You choose what you want to plot on the y -axis and a range of elements to plot taht for on the x-axis. The screenshot below shows the mass of the elements 1 to 111.


The Plot Data dialog

The Glossary (Tools->Glossary) explains the most important chemical words and shows you pictures of the most common tools along with an explanation.


The Glossary
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