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The mystery of the periodic table / Benjamin D. Wiker ; chapter heading illustrations by Jeanne Bendick ; technical drawings by Theodore Schluenderfritz.
By putting over 3,000 years of faces on the search for the elemental principles -- from the Greek philosopher Anaximander, who held that all the material world was made of four "elements", Earth, Air, Fire, and Water; to teams of modern scientists who race to create new elements -- Benjamin Wiker has moved chemistry off the shelf of dry-and-dusty arcania and given the reader a gum-shoe tale filled with odd and interesting characters.
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- ISBN: 188393771X (acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9781883937713 (acid-free paper)
- Physical Description: 163 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Bathgate, N.D. : Bethlehem Books ; c2003.
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| Formatted Contents Note: | Puzzle -- The first chemists? -- Earth, air, fire, water -- The alchemists -- "This spirit, hitherto unknown" -- The atomists return -- The strange tale of Phlogiston, the element that wasn't -- Mr. Priestly clears things up -- Mr. Cavendish and inflammable air -- Chemistry's French revolution -- A revolution in names -- "Nature never creates other than balance in hand" -- Mr. Dalton and his atoms -- The shocking Mr. Davy -- Guy-Lussac and Avogadro to the rescue -- Things fall into place--triads and octaves -- The mystery solved -- The mystery continues. |
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| Ontario Community Library | j. 546.8 WIKER (Text) | 33330004385375 | Juvenile Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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