num_pages: 147
description: In this authoritative Very Short Introduction to the periodic table Eric Scerri presents a modern and fresh exploration of this fundamental topic in the physical sciences considering the deeper implications of the arrangements of the table to atomic physics and quantum mechanics. Scerri looks at the trends in properties of elements that led to the construction of the periodic table and how the deeper meaning of its structure gradually became apparent with the development of atomic theory and quantum mechanics so that physics arguably came to colonize an entirely different science chemistry.
language: English
title: The Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction
publisher: Oxford University Press