John Emsley (University of Cambridge Chemistry Department)

Nature's Building Blocks

Everything You Need to Know about the Elements

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since publication of John Emsley's Nature's Building Blocks in 2003 there have been a number of new developments. Fully updated for 2010, this fascinating A-Z guide includes three new named and validated elements, new uses, a 'Deadly elements' section, and an updated Periodic Table. A wonderful reference guide for anyone working with elements.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 710
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1082g
• ISBN-13: 9780199605637
• ISBN-10: 0199605637
• Artikelnr.: 33315408

Autorenporträt

John Emsley won the Science Book prize in 1995 for his Consumer's Good Chemical Guide, and followed this with a series of popular science books: Molecules at an Exhibition, Was it Something You Ate? (co-authored with P. Fell), and The Shocking History of Phosphorus, all of which have been translated into many other languages. After 20 years as a researcher and lecturer in chemistry at London University, he became a freelance writer, as well as Science Writer in Residence, first at Imperial College London and then at Cambridge University. In 2003 he was awarded the German Chemical Society's Writer's Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The elements (A-Z)
The periodic table
Appendix: the discovery of the elements in chronological order
Bibliography
Lists of elements and atomic numbers
Index