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 Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015] |
| Description | xxxvii, 531 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014009191 |
| ISBN | 9780199383344 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0199383340 (alk. paper) |