Lost elements :
Fontani, Marco
Lost elements : the periodic table's shadow side / Periodic table's shadow side Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna. - New York Oxford University Press 2015 - 531 p.
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.
9780199383344 (alk. paper) 0199383340 (alk. paper)
2014009191
Chemical elements.
Chemical elements--History.
Periodic law--History.
Chemistry--Nomenclature--History.
Chemistry--Humor.
QD467 / .F66 2015
546.8 FON-M
Lost elements : the periodic table's shadow side / Periodic table's shadow side Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna. - New York Oxford University Press 2015 - 531 p.
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.
9780199383344 (alk. paper) 0199383340 (alk. paper)
2014009191
Chemical elements.
Chemical elements--History.
Periodic law--History.
Chemistry--Nomenclature--History.
Chemistry--Humor.
QD467 / .F66 2015
546.8 FON-M