Discovery of the elements / Completely rev. and new material added by Henry M. Leicester. Illus. collected by F.B. Dains.
Material type: TextPublisher: Easton, Pa. ; Journal of chemical education, 1968Edition: 7th edDescription: x, 896 pages illustrations, portraits 24 cmsSubject(s): Geschichte | Chemical elements | Chemistry -- History | Chemists | Chemistry, Physical -- history | Elements | Elements chimiques | Chimie -- Histoire | Chimistes | 35.01 history of chemistry | Chemical elements | Chemistry | Chemists | Chemisches Element | Entdeckung | Geschichte | Chemical elements | Chemistry -- History | Chemists | Chemisches Element | Entdeckung | GeschichteGenre/Form: History.Additional physical formats: Online version:: Discovery of the elements.DDC classification: 546.11 LOC classification: QD466 | .W4 1968Other classification: 35.01Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references.
Elements known to the ancient world: gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, mercury, sulfur -- Carbon and some of its compounds -- Elements of the alchemists: arsenic, antimony, bismuth, phosphorus -- Some eighteenth-century metals: zinc, cobalt, nickel, manganese -- Three important gases: hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen -- Tungsten, molybdenum, uranium, chromium -- Tellurium and selenium -- Niobium (columbium), tantalum, vanadium -- The platinum metals: platinum, rhodium, osmium, iridium, palladium, ruthenium -- Three alkali metals: potassium, sodium, lithium -- Alkaline earth metals, magnesium, cadmium: calcium, barium, strontium, magnesium, cadmium -- Elements isolated with the aid of potassium and sodium: zirconium, titanium, cerium, thorium, beryllium, boron, silicon, aluminum -- Some spectroscopic discoveries: cesium, rubidium, thallium, indium -- Periodic system of the elements -- Some elements predicted by Mendeleev: gallium, scandium, germanium -- The rare earth elements: ytterbium, cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, praseodymium, erbium, terbium, yttrium, scandium, holmium, thulium, samarium, gadolinium, dysprosium, europium, lutetium -- The halogen family: fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine -- The noble gases: helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon -- The natural radioactive elements: radium, polonium, uranium, radon, protactnium, actinium, thorium -- Discoveries by X-ray spectrum analysis: hafnium, rhenium -- Modern alchemy: francium, technetium, promethium, astatine, neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, mendelevium, einsteinium, fermium, 102 [Nobelium], lawrencium, 104 [Rutherfordium] -- List of the chemical elements -- Chronology of element discovery.
Describes how various elements were discovered and includes biographies of the discoverers.
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