Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements - Softcover

Emsley, John

 
9780199605637: Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0199605637 ISBN 13: 9780199605637
Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

John Emsley's Nature's Building Bocks was published in paperback in 2003. In this readable, informative, and fascinating guide to the elements are entries on each of the 100-odd chemical elements, arranged alphabetically from actinium to zirconium. Each entry comprises an explanation of where the element's name comes from, followed by Body element (the role it plays in living things), Element of history (how and when it was discovered), Economic element (what it is used for), Environmental element (where it occurs, how much), Chemical element (facts, figures, and narrative), and Element of surprise (an amazing, little-known fact).

Since publication of the first edition there have been a number of developments. Three new chemical elements have been named and validated: darmstadtium, roetgenium, and copernicium and the section on 'transfermium elements' has now been incorporated into the main part of the book. Economic uses of elements have grown, and some quite rare elements such as Scandium are now economically important, along with updates to elements such as gold due to new roles in industry. Fully revised and updated for 2010, this browsable compendium holds a wealth of useful information.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Emsley won the Science Book prize in 1995 for his Consumer's Good Chemical Guide, and followed this with a series of popular science books: Molecules at an Exhibition, Was it Something You Ate? (co-authored with P. Fell), and The Shocking History of Phosphorus, all of which have been translated into many other languages. After 20 years as a researcher and lecturer in chemistry at London University, he became a freelance writer, as well as Science Writer in Residence, first at Imperial College London and then at Cambridge University. In 2003 he was awarded the German Chemical Society's Writer's Award.


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Verlag
OUP Oxford
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0199605637
ISBN 13 
9780199605637
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
710
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