| 1 | Determines the baseline y-coordinate of the first line of text of the component. | |
| 2 | You may have noticed how, for the vertical scale, a negative sign is used. | |
| 3 | So I've sort of just spread out what we have as the second row here, graphed against the ionization energy. | |
| 4 | After you give it the x- and y- values, you can give it some instructions about how you want to plot points, or anything else. | |
| 5 | Another useful (if somewhat unorthodox) way to take in this graph is to follow the horizontal gridlines. |