The ingredients : a guided tour of the elements / Philip Ball.
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Oxford university press, 2002.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 216 p. : ill., ritr. ; 21 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of figures. 1. Aristotle's quartet: the elements in antiquity 2. Revolution: how oxygen changed in the world 3. Gold: the glorious and accursed element 4. The eightfold path: organizing the elements 5. The atom factories: making new elements 6. The chemical brothers: why isotopes are useful 7. For all practical purposes: technologies of the elements. Notes. Further reading. Index
