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The Elements: The New Guide To The Building Blocks Of Our UniverseStock informationGeneral Fields
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Description"The Elements: An Interactive Guide to the Building Blocks of our Universe" is an illustrated reference book to the elements that make up everything in our universe. General information about the properties, behaviour and occurrence of the elements, their main compounds and their principal uses is given. It is authoritative and accessible, with a sense of wonder about the way the material world works, thanks to the protons, neutrons and electrons that make up the atoms of the elements. Author descriptionJack Challoner has been a science writer since 1991. He has written over 30 books on a variety of scientific and technological subjects. He has also written for encyclopaedias, magazines, museum exhibitions and websites, and acts as scientific consultant for books, CD-roms, plays and television programmes. He is the author of Carlton's Genius: Great Inventors and their Creations and lives in Bristol. Table of contentsIntroduction; Hydrogen; Group 1: The Alkali Metals; Group 2: The Alkaline Earth Metals; Interlude: Group 3 and the d- and f-Blocks; The Rare Earth Metals; The Actinoids; Group 4: The Titanium Group; Group 5: The Vanadium Group; Group 6: The Chromium Group; Group 7: The Manganese Group; Group 8: The Iron Group; Group 9: The Cobalt Group; Group 10: The Nickel Group; Group 11: The Copper Group; Group 12: The Zinc Group; Group 13: The Boron Group; Group 14: The Carbon Group; Group 15: The Nitrogen Group; Group 16: The Oxygen Group; Group 17: The Halogens; Group 18: The Noble Gases. |