Element Wheel
Spin to pick one chemical element, or choose a group such as the noble gases first.
No spins yet. Each pick is listed here in order.
Elements on the wheel, by group
Nonmetals (7)
- Hydrogen
- Carbon
- Nitrogen
- Oxygen
- Phosphorus
- Sulfur
- Selenium
Noble gases (7)
- Helium
- Neon
- Argon
- Krypton
- Xenon
- Radon
- Oganesson
Alkali metals (6)
- Lithium
- Sodium
- Potassium
- Rubidium
- Cesium
- Francium
Alkaline earth metals (6)
- Beryllium
- Magnesium
- Calcium
- Strontium
- Barium
- Radium
Metalloids (7)
- Boron
- Silicon
- Germanium
- Arsenic
- Antimony
- Tellurium
- Polonium
Halogens (6)
- Fluorine
- Chlorine
- Bromine
- Iodine
- Astatine
- Tennessine
Post-transition metals (11)
- Aluminum
- Gallium
- Indium
- Tin
- Thallium
- Lead
- Bismuth
- Nihonium
- Flerovium
- Moscovium
- Livermorium
Transition metals (38)
- Scandium
- Titanium
- Vanadium
- Chromium
- Manganese
- Iron
- Cobalt
- Nickel
- Copper
- Zinc
- Yttrium
- Zirconium
- Niobium
- Molybdenum
- Technetium
- Ruthenium
- Rhodium
- Palladium
- Silver
- Cadmium
- Hafnium
- Tantalum
- Tungsten
- Rhenium
- Osmium
- Iridium
- Platinum
- Gold
- Mercury
- Rutherfordium
- Dubnium
- Seaborgium
- Bohrium
- Hassium
- Meitnerium
- Darmstadtium
- Roentgenium
- Copernicium
Lanthanides (15)
- Lanthanum
- Cerium
- Praseodymium
- Neodymium
- Promethium
- Samarium
- Europium
- Gadolinium
- Terbium
- Dysprosium
- Holmium
- Erbium
- Thulium
- Ytterbium
- Lutetium
Actinides (15)
- Actinium
- Thorium
- Protactinium
- Uranium
- Neptunium
- Plutonium
- Americium
- Curium
- Berkelium
- Californium
- Einsteinium
- Fermium
- Mendelevium
- Nobelium
- Lawrencium
Source: PubChem periodic table (U.S. National Library of Medicine). We read it on October 13, 2026.
About the element wheel
The wheel holds all 118 chemical elements of the periodic table, from hydrogen to oganesson. Under “Choose a list” they are sorted into 10 groups, the way PubChem labels them. The smallest groups have 6 elements each and the largest, the transition metals, has 38.
Names are spelled the way the source spells them, which is the American way: aluminum, cesium, sulfur. Each name fits on its slice, because labels are hidden only above 150 entries. Below the wheel, every element is listed under its group.
Handing out elements for a class report? With “Remove the winner after each spin” switched on, an element that has come up leaves the wheel, so each student gets a different one.
Classroom uses for a periodic table wheel
- Quiz the groups: spin on the full wheel, ask which group the element belongs to, then look it up in the list on this page.
- Spelling round: one student spins and reads the name aloud, and everyone else writes it down.
- Memory game: spin five elements in a row, then see who can name all five before you open the Results tab.
- One unit at a time: switch to a single group, such as the noble gases, when the lesson covers only that part of the table.
How to use the wheel
- Type or paste your options, one per line. The wheel redraws as you type.
- Press Spin, click the wheel, or press Ctrl+Enter while you are in the list.
- Read the pick. Remove it from the wheel if nobody should be picked twice, then spin again.
How the pick is made
Before the wheel moves, your browser draws one slice at random with crypto.getRandomValues, the same generator browsers use for security keys. Every slice has the same chance. The spin you watch only plays that result out.
Nothing about the animation changes the outcome: not how hard you click, not how long the wheel turns, not the size of your screen. The pointer always stops inside a slice, never on a line.
Your list stays in your browser. A link you copy carries the list inside the link itself, so nothing is uploaded.
Questions about the element wheel
- Does this wheel have fire, water, earth and air?
- No. It holds the chemical elements, not the elements of stories and games. To spin fire, water, earth and air, press “Clear list” and type them in.
- Why is an element in a different group on my periodic table?
- Chemists do not all draw the lines between these groups in the same place. This wheel follows the labels in PubChem, so another periodic table may file a few elements under a different group.
- Where does the list of elements come from?
- It comes from the periodic table in PubChem, a chemistry database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. The source and the date it was read are printed with the full list on this page.
- How likely is each element to come up?
- With every element on the wheel it is 1 in 118, or 0.847%. A single group has fewer slices, so the chance of each element in it is larger.