Fontani, Marco <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199383344 (alk. paper) 0199383340 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014009191 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Chemical elements.<br/>Chemical elements--History.<br/>Periodic law--History.<br/>Chemistry--Nomenclature--History.<br/>Chemistry--Humor.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QD467  / .F66 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>546.8 FON-M