| Title |
The ingredients : a guided tour of the elements / Philip Ball. |
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| Imprint |
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. |
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| Description |
xii, 216 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 202) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject(s) |
Chemical elements.
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