The lost elements
Subtitle: the Periodic Table's shadow side
By: Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna
Contributors: Costa, Mariagrazia; Orna, Mary Virginia
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 531
ISBN-13: 9780199383344
Subjects: Chemical elements; Humor; History; Chemistry; Nomenclature; Periodic law
Other titles: Periodic table's shadow side
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: xv; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xvii; title: Note to the Reader
pagenum: xxi; title: Introduction
pagenum: xxiii; title: Why Collect into One Volume the Discoveries of Elements that Have Been Shown to be Erroneous or Have Been Forgotten?
pagenum: xxiii; title: How "an Element" Became a "Chemical Element"
pagenum: xxiv; title: Is There Any Order to the Discoveries of the Elements?
pagenum: xxviii; title: The Development of the Periodic Table
pagenum: xxx; label: Part I
title: Before 1789: Early Errors and Early Elements
pagenum: 1; title: Prologue to Part I
pagenum: 1; label: I.1
title: The Beginning of a Long Series of Scientific Blunders
pagenum: 3; label: I.1.1
title: Terra Nobilis
pagenum: 3; label: I.1.2
title: Siderum and Hydrosiderum
pagenum: 3; label: I.1.3
title: Sydneium or Australium
pagenum: 4; label: I.1.4
title: The Element That Breathes
pagenum: 6; label: I.1.5
title: The Birth of Homeopathy
pagenum: 7; label: I.2
title: The Elements Hidden by Alternative Names
pagenum: 12; label: I.2.1
title: Metallum Problematicum or Tellurium
pagenum: 12; label: I.2.2
title: Ochroite or Cerium
pagenum: 13; label: I.2.3
title: Ceresium or Palladium
pagenum: 13; label: I.2.4
title: Erythronium, Panchromium or Vanadium
pagenum: 14; label: Part II
title: 1789-1869: From Lavoisier to Mendeleev: The First Errors at the Dawn of the Concept of the Chemical Element
pagenum: 19; title: Prologue to Part II
pagenum: 19; label: II.1
title: Analytical Methodology from Lavoisier to Mendeleev
pagenum: 21; label: II.1.1
title: Blowpipe Analysis
pagenum: 22; label: II.1.2
title: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
pagenum: 23; label: II.1.3
title: Electrolysis
pagenum: 23; label: II.1.4
title: Emission Spectroscopy
pagenum: 24; label: II.2
title: The Elements of the Kingdom of Naples
pagenum: 27; label: II.2.1
title: Ruprecht and Tondi: Two Metallurgists Without Metals
pagenum: 27; label: II.2.2
title: Playing Bingo with Five Elements
pagenum: 28; label: II.2.3
title: The Extraction Procedure of the New Metals
pagenum: 29; label: II.2.4
title: Right or Wrong, Was Tondi the Victim of a Sworn Enemy?
pagenum: 29; label: II.2.5
title: The Elements that Replaced Those of Tondi
pagenum: 30; label: II.2.6
title: Possible Present-Day Interpretations
pagenum: 31; label: II.2.7
title: Revolution Offers a Second Career Possibility
pagenum: 33; label: II.3
title: Austrium: One Element, Two Elements, Three Elements, and Finally, Zero Elements
pagenum: 36; label: II.3.1
title: The First Fleeting Attempt to Name an Element Austrium
pagenum: 36; label: II.3.2
title: Austrium: A Posthumous Element
pagenum: 36; label: II.3.3
title: The "Austrian Element" of a Czech Chemist
pagenum: 38; label: II.3.4
title: A Third "Split" for Bohuslav Brauner
pagenum: 41; label: II.4
title: The Return of the Olympians: Silene, Aridium, Saturnum, Pelopium, Dianium, Neptunium, and Plutonium
pagenum: 43; label: II.4.1
title: Silene
pagenum: 43; label: II.4.2
title: Aridium
pagenum: 44; label: II.4.3
title: Saturnum
pagenum: 45; label: II.4.4
title: Pelopium
pagenum: 46; label: II.4.5
title: Dianium
pagenum: 47; label: II.4.6
title: Neptunium
pagenum: 48; label: II.4.7
title: Plutonium
pagenum: 49; label: II.5
title: The Unfortunate Affair of a Student of Kant: A Career Soldier, but a Chemist by Passion
pagenum: 53; label: II.5.1
title: Niccolanum
pagenum: 53; label: II.5.2
title: The Road from Oblivion
pagenum: 54; label: II.6
title: André-Marie Ampère Bursts onto the Chemistry Scene
pagenum: 56; label: II.6.1
title: "Phtore"
pagenum: 56; label: II.7
title: Cadmium: "Bone of Contention" Among Chemical Elements
pagenum: 59; label: II.7.1
title: A Related Discovery Increases the Confusion: Vestium
pagenum: 60; label: II.8
title: A Fireproof Family of Chemists
pagenum: 62; label: II.8.1
title: Chemistry as the Common Denominator
pagenum: 62; label: II.8.2
title: The Most Improbable of the Chemical Elements
pagenum: 63; label: II.9
title: A Bridge of False Hopes Between Divinity and False Elements
pagenum: 65; label: II.9.1
title: Crodonium
pagenum: 65; label: II.9.2
title: Wodanium
pagenum: 66; label: II.9.3
title: False Elements Exchanged for Another False Element
pagenum: 67; label: II.9.4
title: Ptene
pagenum: 69; label: II.9.5
title: Donarium
pagenum: 70; label: II.10
title: Gahnium, Polinium, and Pluranium
pagenum: 73; label: II.10.1
title: Gahnium
pagenum: 73; label: II.10.2
title: Polinium and Pluranium
pagenum: 73; label: II.11
title: Aberdonia and the "Sweet" Map of Oblivion
pagenum: 77; label: II.11.1
title: Donium
pagenum: 77; label: II.11.2
title: Treenium
pagenum: 78; label: II.11.3
title: The Discovery of an Already Known Element?
pagenum: 79; label: II.11.4
title: The Sweet Epilogue Leaves a Bitter Taste in the Mouth
pagenum: 80; label: II.12
title: The Brief Parentheses of Four Misleading Elements
pagenum: 82; label: II.12.1
title: The Fleeting Existence of Thalium
pagenum: 82; label: II.12.2
title: The Meteoric Appearance and Disappearance of Comesium
pagenum: 83; label: II.12.3
title: The Mysterious Nature of Ouralium
pagenum: 84; label: II.12.4
title: The Brief History of Idunium
pagenum: 85; label: II.13
title: Two Imaginary Elements: Sulphurium and Sulfenium
pagenum: 87; label: II.13.1
title: Sulphurium
pagenum: 87; label: II.13.2
title: The Ancient Modernity of Sulfenium
pagenum: 88; label: II.14
title: The Astronomer "Left in the Dark"
pagenum: 91; label: II.14.1
title: "Light" as a Means of Chemical Investigation
pagenum: 91; label: II.14.2
title: A New Family of Elements from an Old Family of Astronomers
pagenum: 92; label: II.14.3
title: Neptunium Is Tempting to a Lot of People
pagenum: 93; label: II.14.4
title: Conclusion
pagenum: 93; label: II.15
title: Bythium and 8: Two Elements That Arose (and Vanished) via Electrolysis
pagenum: 95; label: II.16
title: The Ghosts of Unnamed Elements
pagenum: 97; label: II.16.1
title: 1799: The Element of Fernandez
pagenum: 97; label: II.16.2
title: 1852: The Element of Friedrich August Genth
pagenum: 97; label: II.16.3
title: 1852: The Element of Carl Anton Hjalmar Sjögren
pagenum: 98; label: II.16.4
title: 1861: The Element of the Brothers August and Friedrich Wilhelm Dupré
pagenum: 98; label: II.16.5
title: 1862: The Element of Charles Frederick Chandler
pagenum: 99; label: II.16.6
title: 1864: The Elements of William Nylander and Carl Bischoff
pagenum: 101; label: II.16.7
title: 1869: The Element of Oscar Loew
pagenum: 102; label: II.16.8
title: 1878: The Elements of William Balthasar Gerland
pagenum: 102; label: II.16.9
title: 1883: The Element of Theodor Eduard Wilm
pagenum: 103; label: II.16.10
title: 1897: The Elements of Gethen G. Boucher and F. Ruddock
pagenum: 104; label: II.16.11
title: 1904: The Radium Foil of George Frederick Kunz
pagenum: 104; label: II.16.12
title: 1908: The Element of Clare de Brereton Evans
pagenum: 105; label: II.16.13
title: 1913: The Element of H. C. Holtz
pagenum: 107; label: Part III
title: 1869-1913: From the Periodic Table to Moseley's Law: Rips and Tears in Mendeleev's Net
pagenum: 109; title: Prologue to Part III
pagenum: 109; label: III.1
title: The Forerunners of Celtium and Hafnium: Ostranium, Norium, Jargonium, Nigrium, Euxenium, Asium, and Oceanium
pagenum: 111; label: III.2
title: The Discoveries of the Rare Earths Approach Their End: Philippium, Element X, Decipium, Mosandrium, Rogerium, and Columbium
pagenum: 119; label: III.2.1
title: Philippium and Element X
pagenum: 119; label: III.2.2
title: Mosandrium
pagenum: 121; label: III.2.3
title: Decipium and the Complexity of Didymium
pagenum: 122; label: III.2.4
title: Rogerium and Columbium
pagenum: 124; label: III.2.5
title: Conclusion
pagenum: 124; label: III.3
title: Lavœsium and Davyum: The Rise and Fall of Two Metals with Illustrious Names
pagenum: 128; label: III.3.1
title: The Discovery of Lavœsium
pagenum: 128; label: III.3.2
title: A Residue of Work on Platinum: Davyum
pagenum: 129; label: III.3.3
title: Lavœsium Falls into Oblivion
pagenum: 130; label: III.3.4
title: Davyum's Long Agony
pagenum: 131; label: III.3.5
title: Conclusion
pagenum: 132; label: III.4
title: The Complex Events Surrounding Two "Scandinavian" Metals: Norwegium and Wasium
pagenum: 135; label: III.4.1
title: The Announcement of the Discovery of Norwegium
pagenum: 136; label: III.4.2
title: Norwegium
pagenum: 136; label: III.4.3
title: A Second Claimant
pagenum: 137; label: III.4.4
title: The "Launching" of Wasium
pagenum: 138; label: III.4.5
title: The "Shipwreck" of Wasium
pagenum: 138; label: III.4.6
title: The Epilogue to Norwegium
pagenum: 139; label: III.5
title: Vesbium: An Element from the Center of the Earth
pagenum: 143; label: III.6
title: The Curious Case of the Triple Discovery of Actinium
pagenum: 147; label: III.6.1
title: The First Announcement of the Discovery of Actinium
pagenum: 147; label: III.6.2
title: Confessions of a Violinist
pagenum: 149; label: III.6.3
title: Did the Search for Neoactinium Really Delay the Discovery of Francium?
pagenum: 150; label: III.6.4
title: A Cold Shower at the End of a Career
pagenum: 152; label: III.7
title: The Improbable Elements of a Country Gentleman
pagenum: 155; label: III.8
title: A Bridge Between the Protochemistry of the Pharaohs and the Arab World: Masrium
pagenum: 158; label: III.9
title: The Demon Hidden in the Rare Earths
pagenum: 161; label: III.9.1
title: Provincial America Suits the Great Physicist Just Fine
pagenum: 161; label: III.9.2
title: The Son of a Protestant Pastor Discovers a Demon
pagenum: 162; label: III.9.3
title: The Tragic Conclusion
pagenum: 163; label: III.10
title: Dim Lights and Dark Shadows Around "Lucium"
pagenum: 165; label: III.10.1
title: Preview of the Discovery
pagenum: 165; label: III.10.2
title: The Discovery of the First "Patented" Element
pagenum: 165; label: III.10.3
title: The Interventions of Crookes, Fresenius, and Shapleigh
pagenum: 167; label: III.10.4
title: Who Was Manipulating Lucium's Strings from Behind the Scenes?
pagenum: 168; label: III.11
title: In the Beginning There Was Didymium ... and Then Chaos Among the Rare Earths
pagenum: 171; label: III.11.1
title: Didymium: An Awkward Lodger in the f-Family
pagenum: 171; label: III.11.2
title: The Splitting of Didymium: Praeseodidymium and Neodidymium
pagenum: 173; label: III.11.3
title: A "Colorful" War: Glaucodidymium or Glaucodymium
pagenum: 173; label: III.11.4
title: Claude-Henri Gorceix and Bohuslav Brauner Intervene in the Chaos
pagenum: 174; label: III.12
title: Sir William Ramsay: The Most "Noble" of Chemists
pagenum: 178; label: III.12.1
title: The First Discoveries
pagenum: 178; label: III.12.2
title: A Wrong Track
pagenum: 180; label: III.12.3
title: Anomalous Argon: The Element That Would Not Fit
pagenum: 181; label: III.12.4
title: A Pause in Research
pagenum: 182; label: III.12.5
title: Radioactivity and the Discovery of Niton
pagenum: 183; label: III.12.6
title: A Harvest of Laurels at the Conclusion of His Career
pagenum: 186; label: III.12.7
title: Postscript: Krypton II
pagenum: 187; label: III.13
title: Confederate and Union Stars in the Periodic Table
pagenum: 191; label: III.13.1
title: Introduction
pagenum: 191; label: III.13.2
title: Carolinium (and Berzelium)
pagenum: 192; label: III.13.3
title: Conclusion
pagenum: 195; label: III.14
title: Two Elements from the Depths of Provincial Americana
pagenum: 198; label: III.15
title: The Early Successes of the Young Urbain
pagenum: 200; label: III.15.1
title: Bauxium
pagenum: 201; label: III.15.2
title: From Monium to Victorium and in Pursuit of Ionium and Incognitum
pagenum: 202; label: III.15.3
title: The Element E or X
pagenum: 206; label: III.15.4
title: The Meta Elements
pagenum: 208; label: III.15.5
title: The Elements of Paul Emile (François) Lecoq de Boisbaudran and of Eugène-Anatole Demarçay
pagenum: 210; label: III.15.6
title: The Terbium-I, Terbium-II, and Terbium-III of Welsbach
pagenum: 213; label: III.16
title: The Setting of the Element of the "Rising Sun"
pagenum: 219; label: III.17
title: The Times Have Changed: From Canadium to Quebecium
pagenum: 224; label: III.17.1
title: Who Is Pierre Demers?
pagenum: 226; label: Part IV
title: 1914-1939: From Nuclear Classification to the First Accelerators: Chemists' Paradise Lost ... (and Physicists' Paradise Regained)
pagenum: 231; title: Prologue to Part IV
pagenum: 231; label: IV.1
title: From the Eclipse of Aldebaranium and Cassiopeium to the Priority Conflict Between Celtium and Hafnium
pagenum: 233; label: IV.1.1
title: A Collective History: The Rare Earths
pagenum: 233; label: IV.1.2
title: The Lights of Paris Hide the Stars
pagenum: 233; label: IV.1.3
title: Celtium
pagenum: 235; label: IV.1.4
title: Neo-Celtium
pagenum: 235; label: IV.1.5
title: Celtium Doesn't Have a Leg to Stand On
pagenum: 238; label: IV.2
title: From the Presumed Inert Elements to Those Lost in the Dead Sea
pagenum: 246; label: IV.2.1
title: The Atomic Theory of James Moir and the Subelements X and Zoïkon
pagenum: 246; label: IV.2.2
title: The Harmonization of the Elements and the Inert Elements
pagenum: 247; label: IV.2.3
title: From England to Prague on the Trail of Element Number 75
pagenum: 249; label: IV.2.4
title: On the Banks of the Dead Sea: The First Investigations for the Identification of Element 87
pagenum: 251; label: IV.2.5
title: Alkalinium
pagenum: 252; label: IV.2.6
title: Alkalinium's Epilogue
pagenum: 257; label: IV.3
title: A Success "Transmuted" into Failure
pagenum: 260; label: IV.3.1
title: Brevium
pagenum: 260; label: IV.3.2
title: Lisonium and Lisottonium
pagenum: 262; label: IV.3.3
title: Radio-Brevium and the Missed Discovery of Nuclear Fission
pagenum: 264; label: IV.3.4
title: Brevium's Last Gasp
pagenum: 265; label: IV.4
title: From Pleochroic Haloes to the Birth of the Earth
pagenum: 267; label: IV.4.1
title: The Origins of the Irish Physicist
pagenum: 267; label: IV.4.2
title: Radioactivity Makes Dating of the Earth Possible
pagenum: 268; label: IV.4.3
title: Hibernium: An Elusive Element
pagenum: 270; label: IV.5
title: If Anyone Has a Sheep, Wolfram Will Eat It
pagenum: 272; label: IV.5.1
title: The Neighbors of Molybdenum and Tungsten
pagenum: 274; label: IV.6
title: When It Comes to New Discoveries, the More You Err, You End Up Erring More
pagenum: 278; label: IV.7
title: The Radioactive Element of the Hot Springs
pagenum: 284; label: IV.8
title: Moseleyum: The Twofold Attempt to Honor a Hero
pagenum: 286; label: IV.9
title: The Inorganic Evolution of Element 61: Florentium, Illinium, Cyclonium and Finally Promethium
pagenum: 289; label: IV.9.1
title: Florentium, the Metal of the Florentines
pagenum: 291; label: IV.9.2
title: The Americans Discover Illinium
pagenum: 295; label: IV.9.3
title: Integrity Comes with a Price Tag
pagenum: 299; label: IV.9.4
title: Florentium Ends Up in Court
pagenum: 301; label: IV.9.5
title: Cyclonium
pagenum: 302; label: IV.9.6
title: The Retraction of the Discovery of Florentium
pagenum: 303; label: IV.9.7
title: Conclusion
pagenum: 304; label: IV.9.8
title: Epilogue
pagenum: 306; label: IV.10
title: Masurium: An X-Ray Mystery
pagenum: 310; label: IV.10.1
title: The Discovery of Rhenium and Masurium
pagenum: 310; label: IV.10.2
title: No More Mention of Masurium
pagenum: 312; label: IV.10.3
title: Panormium and Trinacrium
pagenum: 312; label: IV.10.4
title: The Ignored and Underrated "Chemikerin" and Her Fission Hypothesis
pagenum: 315; label: IV.10.5
title: Declining Years: Sympathy for Nazism
pagenum: 317; label: IV.11
title: The Twilight of the Naturally Occurring Elements: Moldavium, Sequanium, and Dor
pagenum: 320; label: IV.11.1
title: Eka-Cæsium: From Russia to Moldavia, through Virginia
pagenum: 321; label: IV.11.2
title: A Digression on X-Ray Wavelength: Precision, Units, and Conversion Factors
pagenum: 325; label: IV.11.3
title: Eka-Rhenium: Cum Caesar in Galliam Venit, Alterius Factionis Principes Erant Haedui ... Sequani
pagenum: 326; label: IV.11.4
title: Alabamine and Virginium
pagenum: 327; label: IV.11.5
title: Eka-Iodine Assumes the Fanciful Name of Dor
pagenum: 331; label: IV.11.6
title: Conclusion
pagenum: 333; label: IV.12
title: A Cocktail of Chemistry and Espionage: Helvetium, Anglo-Helvetium, and a Pair of Indian Elements
pagenum: 337; label: IV.12.1
title: Rajendralal De and His Twin Elements: Gourium and Dakin
pagenum: 337; label: IV.12.2
title: Walter Minder and Helvetium
pagenum: 339; label: IV.12.3
title: Alice Leigh-Smith and Anglo-Helvetium
pagenum: 340; label: IV.12.4
title: C. W. Martin and the "Elusive" Parentheses of Leptine
pagenum: 343; label: IV.12.5
title: Academic Conflicts with Hulubei, Paneth, and Karlik
pagenum: 343; label: IV.12.6
title: Conclusion
pagenum: 345; label: IV.13
title: Is Failure a Severe Master?
pagenum: 348; label: IV.13.1
title: Eline
pagenum: 348; label: IV.13.2
title: Verium
pagenum: 348; label: Part V
title: 1939-Present: Beyond Uranium, to the Stars
pagenum: 351; title: Prologue to Part V
pagenum: 351; label: V.1
title: The Obsession of Physicists with the Frontier: The Case of Ausonium and Hesperium, Littorium and Mussolinium
pagenum: 353; label: V.2
title: Finis Materiae
pagenum: 361; label: V.2.1
title: The Island of Nuclear Stability
pagenum: 365; label: V.2.2
title: Unfortunate Episodes in the Attribution of the Names of the Elements Between 101 and 109
pagenum: 366; label: V.2.3
title: From Atoms to the Stars
pagenum: 367; label: V.3
title: The Search for Primordial Superheavy Elements: Between Scientific Rigor and Atomic Fantasy
pagenum: 370; label: V.4
title: Names, Names, and Names Again: From A to Zunzenium
pagenum: 375; label: V.4.1
title: The Elements from Neptunium to Mendelevium Seen from Both Sides of the Iron Curtain
pagenum: 375; label: V.4.2
title: The Step Longer than Its Leg: Nobelium
pagenum: 381; label: V.4.3
title: Chaos Surrounds Lawrencium, Rutherfordium, Dubnium, and Seaborgium
pagenum: 383; label: V.5
title: Do We Have to Live With Fantasy? Hawkingium and Zunzenium
pagenum: 391; label: V.6
title: Naming the Last Five Arrivals in the Great "Family of the Transuranium Elements"
pagenum: 394; label: Part VI
title: No Place for Them in the Periodic Table: Bizarre Elements
pagenum: 401; title: Prologue to Part VI
pagenum: 401; label: VI.1
title: Inorganic Evolution: From Proto-Elements to Extinct Elements
pagenum: 403; label: VI.1.1
title: A Step Backward: Prime Matter, Andronia, and Thelyke
pagenum: 403; label: VI.1.2
title: Pantogen
pagenum: 405; label: VI.1.3
title: Protyle
pagenum: 406; label: VI.1.4
title: Other Theories of Chemical Evolution
pagenum: 408; label: VI.1.5
title: The Asteroid Elements
pagenum: 410; label: VI.1.6
title: The Painful Finale
pagenum: 412; label: VI.2
title: Dazzling Traces of False Suns
pagenum: 415; label: VI.2.1
title: The Mirage of the Source of Stellar Energy
pagenum: 415; label: VI.2.2
title: The Curious Appearance of Kosmium and Neokosmium
pagenum: 417; label: VI.3
title: From the Nonexistent Elements of Mendeleev to the Puzzle of the Existence of the Ether
pagenum: 419; label: VI.3.1
title: Coronium and Its Aftermath
pagenum: 421; label: VI.3.2
title: The Geocoronium Hypothesis
pagenum: 422; label: VI.3.3
title: Etherium: Elementary Gas or Subatomic Particle?
pagenum: 423; label: VI.4
title: Anodium and Cathodium
pagenum: 426; label: VI.5
title: The Exotic Damarium
pagenum: 428; label: VI.6
title: Subtle Is the Air: The Case of Asterium
pagenum: 431; label: VI.7
title: Clairvoyance as a Means of Investigating Some "Occult Elements"
pagenum: 435; label: VI.7.1
title: A Clairvoyant Investigates the Structure of New and Old Atoms and Their Position in the Periodic Table
pagenum: 435; label: VI.7.2
title: The Last Years of the Three Clairvoyants
pagenum: 440; label: VI.8
title: William Harkins's Element Zero: Neutronium
pagenum: 443; label: VI.8.1
title: A Place in the Periodic Table for the Element Without a Nuclear Charge
pagenum: 444; label: VI.8.2
title: From the Nuclear "Alphabet" to the Hypothesis of Neutronium
pagenum: 444; label: VI.8.3
title: William Draper Harkins: A Versatile and Obstinate Chemist
pagenum: 446; label: Part VII
title: Modern Alchemy: The Dream to Transmute the Elements Has Always Been with Us
pagenum: 449; title: Prologue to Part VII: Alchemy Then and Now
pagenum: 449; label: VII.1
title: A Piece of Research Gone Up in Smoke: Decomposition of Tungsten into Helium
pagenum: 451; label: VII.2
title: Transmutations of Mercury into Gold
pagenum: 453; label: VII.3
title: Transmutations of Silver into Gold
pagenum: 457; label: VII.4
title: Transmutation of Ores
pagenum: 461; label: VII.5
title: Other Transmutations
pagenum: 464; label: VII.6
title: Biological Transmutation
pagenum: 465; label: VII.7
title: The Transmutation of Hydrogen into Helium and Neon
pagenum: 468; label: VII.8
title: Radiochemistry: A Child of Both Physics and Chemistry
pagenum: 470; label: VII.8.1
title: Willy Marckwald Makes His Mark: The Polonium Controversy
pagenum: 471; label: VII.8.2
title: William Ramsay "Out of his Element"
pagenum: 472; label: VII.8.3
title: Tellurium X
pagenum: 473; label: VII.9
title: Transmutation of Lead into Mercury
pagenum: 476; label: VII.10
title: Some Like It "Cold"
pagenum: 478; label: VII.11
title: Is Cold Fusion Hot Again?
pagenum: 480; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 480; title: Appendix: Chronological Finder's Guide for the Lost Elements
pagenum: 483; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 493; title: About the Authors
pagenum: 499; title: Name Index
pagenum: 501; title: Lost Element Name Index
pagenum: 515; title: Subject Index
pagenum: 521