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Elemental : how the periodic table can now explain (nearly) everything /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: James, Tim (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Abrams Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Periodic table of the elements.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A recipe for reality
  • Flame chasers
  • Uncuttable
  • The machine gun and the pudding
  • Where do atoms come from?
  • Block by block
  • Quantum mechanics saves the day
  • Things that go boom
  • The alchemist's dream
  • Leftists
  • Acids, crystals, and light
  • It's alive, it's alive!
  • Nine elements that changed the world (and one that didn't)
  • Appendix I. Sulfur with an "f"
  • Appendix II. Half a proton?
  • Appendix III. Schrödinger's equation
  • Appendix IV. Neutrons into protons
  • Appendix V. The pH and pKa scales
  • Appendix VI. Groups of the periodic table.