The elements :
Ball, Philip
The elements : a very short introduction Philip Ball. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, ©2004. - 179 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - Very short introductions ; 104 .
"First published as The ingredients, 2002"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 164) and index.
Aristotle's quartet : the elements in antiquity -- Revolution : how oxygen changed the world -- Gold : the glorious and accursed element -- eightfold path : organizing the elements -- atom factories : making new elements -- chemical brothers : why isotopes are useful -- For all practical purposes : technologies of the elements. 1. 2. 3. 4. The 5. The 6. The 7.
9780192840998
2004304142
Chemical elements.
QD466 / .B25 2004
546 / BAL-E
The elements : a very short introduction Philip Ball. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, ©2004. - 179 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - Very short introductions ; 104 .
"First published as The ingredients, 2002"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 164) and index.
Aristotle's quartet : the elements in antiquity -- Revolution : how oxygen changed the world -- Gold : the glorious and accursed element -- eightfold path : organizing the elements -- atom factories : making new elements -- chemical brothers : why isotopes are useful -- For all practical purposes : technologies of the elements. 1. 2. 3. 4. The 5. The 6. The 7.
9780192840998
2004304142
Chemical elements.
QD466 / .B25 2004
546 / BAL-E