The history and use of our earth's chemical elements
Subtitle: a reference guide
By: Robert E. Krebs ; illustrations by Rae Déjur.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780313334382
Subjects: Chemical elements
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-416) and index.
Table of contents: title: HOW TO USE THIS BOOK; title: INTRODUCTION; title: A SHORT HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY; title: The Beginnings of Science; title: Origins of the Earthʾs Chemical Elements; title: Early Uses of Chemistry; title: The Age of Alchemy; title: The Age of Modern Chemistry; title: Elements and Compounds; title: ATOMIC STRUCTURE; title: Early Ideas of Atomic Structure; title: Some Theoretical Atomic Models; title: The Nucleus and Radiation; title: Chemical Bonding; title: Organic Chemistry; title: Fullerenes and Nanotechnology; title: THE PERIODIC TABLE OF THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; title: History; title: Rules for Cataloging the Elements; title: Isotopes; title: Radioactivity; title: GUIDE TO THE ELEMENTS; title: Alkali metals: periods 1 to 7, Group (IA); title: Alkali earth metals: periods 2 to 7, Group 2 (IIA); title: Transition elements: metals to nonmetals; title: Metallics, metalloids, semiconductors, nonmetals; title: Lanthanide series (rare-earth elements):  period 6; title: Actinide series (period 7) and  transuranic elements; title: Transactinide series: period 7 (continuation of actinide series); title: The superactinides (super heavy elements) and possible future elements.