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Get list of chemical elements from Wikipedia + Pandas
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get_chemical_elements_wikipedia.py
import pandas as pd
# read wikipedia html table with info on all elemetns, including symbols, names, properties:
df_base = pd.read_html("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements")[0]
element_full_names = df_base["List of chemical elements"]["Element"][:-1] # last row is comments
element_full_names =list(element_full_names.apply(lambda x: x[0],axis=1).values) # get individual names out of wrapped list format
# element_full_names.to_csv("names_of_elements.csv",index=False)
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