Element

class montepy.Element(Z: montepy.types.PositiveInt)

Bases: SingletonGroup

Class to represent an element e.g., Aluminum.

Note

This class is immutable, and hashable, meaning it is suitable as a dictionary key.

Parameters:

Z (Integral) – the Z number of the element

Raises:

UnknownElement – if there is no element with that Z number.

Methods:

get_by_name(cls, name)	Get an element by it's name.
get_by_symbol(cls, symbol)	Get an element by it's symbol.

Attributes:

Z	The atomic number for this Element.
name	The name of the element.
symbol	The atomic symbol for this Element.

classmethod get_by_name(cls, name: str) → Element

Get an element by it’s name.

E.g., get the element with Z=1 from “hydrogen”.

Returns:

the element with this name

Return type:

Element

Raises:

UnknownElement – if there is no element with that name.

Parameters:

name (str)

classmethod get_by_symbol(cls, symbol: str) → Element

Get an element by it’s symbol.

E.g., get the element with Z=1 from “H”.

Returns:

the element with this symbol

Return type:

Element

Raises:

UnknownElement – if there is no element with that symbol.

Parameters:

symbol (str)

property Z: int

The atomic number for this Element.

Returns:

the atomic number

Return type:

int

property name: str

The name of the element.

Returns:

the element’s name.

Return type:

str

property symbol: str

The atomic symbol for this Element.

Returns:

the atomic symbol

Return type:

str