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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ball, Philip, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Series:Very short introductions ; 104.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.