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The lost elements : the Periodic Table's shadow side
- Title
- The lost elements : the Periodic Table's shadow side / Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna.
- Author
- Fontani, Marco, 1969-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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- Description
- xxxvii, 531 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Alternative Title
- Periodic Table's shadow side
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Humor.
- Terminology.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JSE 16-83
- ISBN
- 9780199383344
- 0199383340
- LCCN
- 2014009191
- 40024181734
- OCLC
- 873238266
- Author
- Fontani, Marco, 1969- author.
- Title
- The lost elements : the Periodic Table's shadow side / Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Added Author
- Costa, Mariagrazia, author.Orna, Mary Virginia, author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40024181734
- Research Call Number
- JSE 16-83