Much ado about (practically) nothing
Subtitle: a history of the noble gases
By: David E. Fisher.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195393965
Subjects: Gases, Rare
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Philosophy and apology; title: In the beginning; title: Helium; title: Argon and the rest; title: Helium and the age of the Earth; title: The strange case of helium and the nuclear atom; title: Interlude : helium, argon, and creationism; title: Meanwhile, back at brookhaven; title: Cornell, the ten minute experiment, and back to argon; title: K/AR and the irons; title: Interlude : the spreading oceans; title: Dating the spreading sea floor; title: The argon surprise; title: Primordial helium and argon and the evolution of the Earth; title: Xenology; title: The coldest place on Earth; title: Back to the stars; title: The neutrino revolution; title: Life and death on Mars and Earth; title: Radon and you; title: L'envoi.