A Tale of Seven Elements

Zusatztext compulsory reading for those who wish to inject some life into the story of the elements and the periodic table. Informationen zum Autor Dr. Eric Scerri is a leading philosopher of science specializing in the history and philosophy of the periodic table. He is also the founder and editor in chief of the international journal Foundations of Chemistry and has been a full-time lecturer at UCLA for the past ten years where he regularly teaches classes of 350 chemistry students as well as classes in history and philosophy of science. He is the author of The Periodic Table: Its Story and ItsSignificance. Klappentext In A Tale of Seven Elements, Eric Scerri presents the fascinating history of those seven elements discovered to be mysteriously missing from the periodic table in 1913. Zusammenfassung In A Tale of Seven Elements, Eric Scerri presents the fascinating history of those seven elements discovered to be mysteriously "missing" from the periodic table in 1913. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: What constitutes the discovery of an element?; Chapter 1.; Dalton, to the Discovery of the Periodic System; Chapter 2.; van den Broek, Moseley and the missing seven elements.; Chapter 3.; Element 91, protactinium; Chapter 4.; Element 72, hafnium; Chapter 5.; Element 75, rhenium; Chapter 6.; Element 43, technetium; Chapter 7.; Element 87, francium; Element 8.; Element 85, astatine; Chapter 9.; Element 61, promethium

Product details

• Authors: Eric Scerri, Scerri Eric
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2013
• EAN: 9780195391312
• ISBN: 978-0-19-539131-2
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 218 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Physics / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biochemistry, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Organic, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Physical & Theoretical, biochemistry, History of Science, Physics, Physical Chemistry, Chemical biology