The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance by Eric R. Scerri

The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance Eric R. Scerri ebook
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0195305736, 9780195305739
Page: 369
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Thanks for referring to the hafnium story Sam, and for citing my work on this in your book. Http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Chemistry/?view=usa&ci=9780195305739. I'm still learning; I've read several fascinating narratives about chemistry, my very favorite of them being Oliver Sacks' Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (indeed, it's one of my favorite books ever). Eric Scerri author of "The Periodic Table, Its Story and Its Significance", Oxford University Press, 2007. Bunpei Yorifuji, author of Wonderful Life with the Elements, both show and explain important facts about the elements. If we could look The periodic table: its story and its significance. The atomic numbers, atomic Bruce Railsback's An Earth Scientist's Periodic Table of the Elements and Their Ions shows physical properties and abundances of elements and their ions and isotopes of importance to Earth scientists. Yorifuji then raises our awareness of the elements by showing their importance in our lives and making the knowledge more accessible to both chemists and non-chemists As the introduction to this book, the story is funny and very convincing. Http://www.amazon.com/Periodic-Table-Its-Story-Significance/dp/0195305736/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247184501&sr=1-1. For the definitive book on the periodic table please see my recent ,. If these atoms, minute as they are, were arranged in a straight line with each one touching its neighbors, the line would stretch from here to the sun. For a full account of the development and meaning of the periodic table see my recent book,. Eric Scerri on December 4, 2010 4:55 AM. Nice to see the periodic table in the news yet again! Guess we'll have to wait and see! Eric Scerri, The Periodic Table, Its Story and Its Significance, Oxford University Press, 2007. To UCLA chemist and historian Eric Scerri, author of the recently published The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance, the periodic table symbolizes and encapsulates the whole field of chemistry. Anders Sandberg, a neuroscientist at Oxford University, has taken inspiration from that calender and his love for yttrium to construct a new kind of periodic table. Plus, the table is limited by its compact size. Which is no less fascinating, see. Table Its Story and Its Significance, Oxford University Press, 2007.