TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fontani,Marco
AU  - Costa,Mariagrazia
AU  - Orna,Mary Virginia
TI  - Lost elements: the periodic table's shadow side 
SN  - 9780199383344 (alk. paper)
AV  - QD467 .F66 2015
U1  - 546.8 FON-M 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Chemical elements
KW  - History
KW  - Periodic law
KW  - Chemistry
KW  - Nomenclature
KW  - Humor
N1  - 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
ER  -