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id: 602d9ff222201c65d2a019f2
title: Build a Periodic Table Database
challengeType: 13
helpCategory: Backend Development
url: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/learn-periodic-table-database
dashedName: build-a-periodic-table-database
---

# --description--

This is one of the required projects to earn your certification. For this project, you will create Bash a script to get information about chemical elements from a periodic table database.

# --instructions--

**Important:** After you pass all the project tests, save a dump of your database into a `elements.sql` file, as well as your whole `periodic_table` folder, so you can complete step 2. There will be instructions how to do that within the virtual machine.

# --notes--

Required files: `elements.sql`, and the whole `periodic_table` folder

# --hints--

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# --solutions--
