The lost elements : the Periodic Table's shadow side /
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Author / Creator: | Fontani, Marco, 1969- |
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Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015] ©2015 |
Description: | xxxvii, 531 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10505015 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Before 1789: Early Errors and Early Elements
- Part II. 1789-1869: From Lavoisier to Mendeleev: The First Errors at the Dawn of Concept
- Part III. 1869-1914: From the Periodic Table to Moseley's Revolution: Rips and Tears in Medeleev's Net
- Part IV. 1914-1939: From Nuclear Classification to the First Accelerators: Chemists' Paradise Lost...(and Physicists' Paradise Regained)
- Part V. 1939 to the Present. Beyond Uranium, to the Stars
- Part VI. No Place for Them in the Periodic Table: Bizarre Elements
- Part VII. Modern Alchemy: The Dream to Transmute the Elements Has Always Been with Us