Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, Mary Virginia Orna

The Lost Elements

The Periodic Table's Shadow Side

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The story of the false entries, good-faith errors, retractions, and mistakes that occurred during the formation of the Periodic Table of Elements as we know it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1013g
• ISBN-13: 9780199383344
• ISBN-10: 0199383340
• Artikelnr.: 40801793

Autorenporträt

Marco Fontani and Mariagrazia Costa both are affiliated with the Department of Chemistry at the University of Florence. Mary Virginia Orna is affiliated with the Department of Chemistry at the College of New Rochelle.

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Contents
* Part I. Before 1789: Early Errors and Early Elements
* Part II. 1789-1869: From Lavoisier to Mendeleev: The First Errors at
the Dawn of Concept
* Part III. 1869-1914: From the Periodic Table to Moseley's Revolution:
Rips and Tears in Medeleev's Net
* Part IV. 1914-1939: From Nuclear Classification to the First
Accelerators: Chemists' Paradise Lost...(and Physicists' Paradise
Regained)
* Part V. 1939 to the Present. Beyond Uranium, to the Stars
* Part VI. No Place for Them in the Periodic Table: Bizarre Elements
* Part VII. Modern Alchemy: The Dream to Transmute the Elements Has
Always Been with Us