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Michkov t1_j7i7sm4 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Understanding that deuterium and tritium are simply isotopes of hydrogen, is there an equivalent periodic table that shows all known elements and their isotopes? by [deleted]

Problem is it wasn't designed to display fractions of proton masses. What gives it that pixelated look is that each isotope has an integer coordinate, since its coordinates are defined via number of nucleids vs number of protons.

Now the muon is only 11% of the proton mass, so that breaks the nice grid pattern. It also has a charge of -1 so that doesn't really correspond to the protons charge of +1.

You could modify the table, so the axis are total mass vs electrical charge. In that scheme muonium would go below the neutron line.

PS: Here is an interactive version of the table

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