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Lost elements : the periodic table's shadow side / Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Oxford University Press 2015Description: 531 pISBN:
  • 9780199383344 (alk. paper)
  • 0199383340 (alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Periodic table's shadow side
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 546.8 FON-M
LOC classification:
  • QD467 .F66 2015
Contents:
Before 1789: early errors and early elements -- 1789-1869: from Lavoisier to Mendeleev: the first errors at the dawn of the concept of the chemical element -- 1869-1913: from the periodic table to Moseley's law: rips and tears in Mendeleev's net -- 1914-1939: from nuclear classification to the first accelerators: chemists' paradise lost... (and physicists' paradise regained) -- 1939-present: beyond uranium, to the stars -- Modern alchemy: the dream to transmute the elements has always been with us.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Before 1789: early errors and early elements -- 1789-1869: from Lavoisier to Mendeleev: the first errors at the dawn of the concept of the chemical element -- 1869-1913: from the periodic table to Moseley's law: rips and tears in Mendeleev's net -- 1914-1939: from nuclear classification to the first accelerators: chemists' paradise lost... (and physicists' paradise regained) -- 1939-present: beyond uranium, to the stars -- Modern alchemy: the dream to transmute the elements has always been with us.

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