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Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table.
Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters?
The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure...
Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters?
The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure...
2) Elements
Publisher
Grolier Educational
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
15 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
3) Elements
Author
Publisher
Grolier Educational
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
New and revised edition.
Physical Desc
18 volumes : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
240 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
As one of the most recognizable images in science, the periodic table is ingrained in our culture. First drawn up in 1869 by Dmitri Mendeleev, its 118 elements make up not only everything on our planet but also everything in the entire universe. The Periodic Table looks at the fascinating story and surprising uses of each of those elements, whether solid, liquid or gas. From the little-known uses of gold in medicine to the development of the hydrogen...
8) Elements
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The elements in the periodic table are the ingredients that make up our world. Explore elements such as carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, and learn why they are essential to our survival. See how precious gold protects astronauts in space, and why the metal mercury can be both a solid and a liquid. Find out about man-made elements, which the smartest chemists are busy figuring out how to use. Learn about scores of other elements, including silver, the...
9) The elements
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A spectacular visual guide to the more than 100 elements that make up you and everything around you"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Andre Deutsch
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
What links the Taj Mahal and our skeleton? The Eiffel Tower and our blood? The salt on our food and the street lamps that guide us home? The answers are calcium, iron and sodium - each one an element. Forged in the Big Bang and in supernovas, the elements and their resulting compounds went on to create our Solar System, the planet we live on, the air we breathe, the water we rely on, and the proteins that would become life. This book provides need-to-know...
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
240 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The elements are what we - and everything around us - are made of. But how many elements have you seen in their pure, raw, uncombined form? This book presents photographic representations of the 118 elements in the period table, along with facts, figures and stories about each one.
16) The elements
Author
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the basic concepts of chemistry and explains complex theories before offering a separate article on each of the building blocks that make up the universe.
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