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The elements : a very short introduction /
This work traces the history and cultural impact of the elements on humankind, and examines why people have long sought to identify the substances around them.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Very short introductions ;
104. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Aristotle's quartet : the elements in antiquity
- 2. Revolution : how oxygen changed the world
- 3. Gold : the glorious and accursed element
- 4. The eightfold path : organizing the elements
- 5. The atom factories : making new elements
- 6. The chemical brothers : why isotopes are useful
- 7. For all practical purposes : technologies of the elements.