The lost elements the Periodic Table's shadow side / Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna.

Author/creator Fontani, Marco, 1969-
Other author Costa, Mariagrazia.
Other author Orna, Mary Virginia.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Descriptionxxxvii, 531 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Portion of title Periodic table's shadow side
Contents Before 1789: early errors and early elements -- 1789-1869: from Lavoisier to Mendeleev: the first errors at the dawn of the concept of the chemical element -- 1869-1913: from the periodic table to Moseley's law: rips and tears in Mendeleev's net -- 1914-1939: from nuclear classification to the first accelerators: chemists' paradise lost... (and physicists' paradise regained) -- 1939-present: beyond uranium, to the stars -- Modern alchemy: the dream to transmute the elements has always been with us.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014009191
ISBN9780199383344 (alk. paper)
ISBN0199383340 (alk. paper)