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| Autore principale: | Fontani, Marco.
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| Titolo: | The lost elements : the periodic table's shadow side / Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa and Mary Virginia Orna. |
| Pubblicazione: | Oxford : Oxford university, c2015. |
| Descrizione fisica: | XXXVII, 531 : ritr. ; 25 cm |
| Contiene: | Indice: Preface. Acknowledgments. Note to the reader. Introduction. Pt. 1. Before 1789: early errors and early elements: 1. The beginning of a long series of scientific blunders 2. The elements hidden by alternative names. Pt. 2. 1789-1869: from Lavoisier to Mendeleev: the first errors at the dawn of the concept of the chemical element: 1. Analytical methodology from Lavoisier to Mendeleev 2. The elements of the kingdom of Naples 3. Austrium: one element, two elements, three elements, and finally, zero elements 4. The return of the olympians: silene, aridium, saturnum, pelopium, dianium, neptunium, and plutonium 5. The unfortunate affair of a student of Kant: a career soldier, but a chemist by passion 6. Andre-Marie Ampère bursts onto the chemistry scene 7. Cadmium: bone of contention among chemical elements 8. A fireproof family of chemists 9. A bridge of false hopes between divinity and false elements 10. Gahnium, polinium and pluranium 11. Aberdonia and the sweet map of oblivion 12. The brief parentheses of four misleading elements 13. Two imaginary elements: sulphurium and sulfenium 14. The astronomer left in the dark 15. Bythium and delta: two elements that arose and vanished via electrolysis 16. The ghosts of unnamed elements. Pt. 3. 1869-1913: From the periodic table to Moseley's law: rips and tears in Mendeleev's net: 1. The forerunners of celtium and hafnium: ostranium, norium, jargonium, nigrium, euxenium, asium, and oceanium 2. The discoveries of the rare earths approach their end: philippium, element x, decipium, mosandrium, rogerium, and columbium 3. Lavoesium and davyum: the rise and fall of two metals with illustrious names 4. The complex events surrounding two Scandinavian metals: Norwegium and Wasium 5. Vesbium: an element from the center of the Earth 6. The curious case of the triple discovery of actinium 7. The improbable elements of a country gentleman 8. A bridge between the protochemistry of the pharaohs and the Arab world: masrium 9. The demon hidden in the rare earths 10. Dim lights and dark shadows around lucium 11. In the beginning there was didymium... and then chaos among the rare earths 12. Sir William Ramsay: the most noble of chemists 13. Confederate and union stars into periodic table 14. Two elements from the depths of provincial Americana 15. The early successes of the young urbain 16. The setting of the element of the rising sun 17. The times have changed: from canadium to quebecium. Pt. 4. 1914-1939: from nuclear classification to the first accelerators: chemist's paradise lost... and physicists' paradise regained: 1. From the clipse of aldebaranium and cassiopeium to the priority conflict between celtium and hafnium 2. From the presumed inert elements to those lost in the Dead Sea 3. A success transmuted into failure 4. From pleochroic haloes to the birth of the Earth 5. If anyone has a sheep, Wolfram will eat it 6. When it comes to new discoveries, the more you err, you end up erring more 7. The radioactive element of the hot springs 8. Moseleyum: the twofold attempt to honor a hero 9. The inorganic evolution of element 61: Floretnium. illinium, cyclonium and finally promethium 10. Masurium: an x-ray mystery 11. The twilight of the naturally occurring elements: moldavium, sequanium and dor 12. A cocktail to chemistry and espionage: Helvetium, Anglo-helvetium and a pair of Indian elements 13. Is failure a severe master? Pt. 5. 1939-present: beyond uranium to the stars: 1. The obsession of physicists with the frontier: the case of ausonium and hesperium, littorium and mussolinium 3. The search for primordial superheavy elements: between scientific rigor and atomic fantasy 4. Names, names and names again: from a to zunzenium 5. Do we have to live with fantasy? Hawkingium and zunzenium 6. Naming the last five arrivals in the great family of the transuranium elements. Pt. 6. No place for them in the periodic table: bizarre elements: 1. Inorganic evolution: from proto-elements to extinct elements 2. Dazzling traces of false suns 3. From the nonexistent elements of Mendeleev to the puzzle of the existence of the ether 4. Anodium and cathodium 5. The exotic damarium 6. Subtle is the air: the case of asterium 7. Clairvoyance as a means of investigating some occult elements 8. William Harkins's element zero: neutronium. Pt. 7. Modern alchemy: the dream to transmute the elements has always been with us: 1. A piece of research gone up in smoke: decomposition of tungsten into helium 2. Transmutations of mercury into gold 3. Transmutations of silver into gold 4. Transmutation of ores 5. Other transmutations 6. Biological transmutation 7. The transmutation of hydrogen into helium and neon 8. Radiochemistry: a child of both physics and chemistry 9. transmutation of lead into mercury 10. Some like it cold 11. Is cold fusion hot again?. Epilogue. Appendix: Chronological finder's guide for the lost elements. Bibliography. About the authors. Name index. Lost element name index. Subject index |
| Altri autori: | Costa, Mariagrazia, (coautore.) Orna, Mary Virginia, (coautore.) |
| Discipline: | Chimica--Studi specifici. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secoli XVII-XX. |
| Collocazione: | LS 19997 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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