Anyone in to collecting chemical element samples?
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See http://www.element-collection.com/
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http://www.itt.edu/staff/boyter/links/index.html#CHEMISTRY_ANALYTICAL
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Investigate the origins of the periodic table.
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www.chemistrylecturenotes.com/html/periodic_table.html \ncontains a printable image of the table
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Try Copper Test by points
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test tube- observing for chemical reations
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http://www.chemicalelements.com/\n this is an interactive site that allows you to look us any of the elements and get information about each
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It just so happens that I am working on developing a test method for explosives.  The results are as accurate as any other analytical method.  If you have samples that need to be tested you can try any environmental testing laboratory.  Send me a message at steve.rocks@yahoo.com
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go to www.chemfinder.camsoft.com you can find that and so much more
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Los Alamos national lab has a good periodic table/ elemental factoids.\n\nLanthanum is La.  It is the beginning of the "Lanthanides".
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Peter B has it right -- atomic absorption will do elemental analysis.\n\nAtomic emission spectroscopy is another tack, though a bit more challenging.
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Yes you can.  Some, like radioactive elements, are controlled by law or very difficult to get, but you can buy almost anything if you look around enough.\n\nThis guy has put together an excellent collection of elements:\n\nhttp://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/\n\nSome he purchased, some were gifts from people who heard he was trying to collect them all, some he isolated from common chemicals himself, and so on.  It's a very interesting collection.
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You can use Aldrich, which will give you a sample spectra of the compound. It would be very useful for identification based on a comparison of the fingerprint region (<900 cm-1)\n\nAny Organic book worth its salt will have typical vibrational frequencies. You can also do a yahoo search to get them.
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try:\nhttp://lb.chemie.uni-hamburg.de/static/data/50_zzk46n8n.html
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http://www.chemicool.com/
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http://www.chemicalelements.com/elements/k.html\n\nhttp://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Q6.htm
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http://chemistry.allinfoabout.com/features/nonmetals.html