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The ingredients : a guided tour of the elements / Philip Ball.

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  • ISBN: 0192841009
  • ISBN: 9780192841001
  • Physical Description: xii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 202) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1 Aristotle's Quartet: The Elements in Antiquity 1 -- 2 Revolution: How Oxygen Changed the World 26 -- 3 Gold: The Glorious and Accursed Element 49 -- 4 Eightfold Path: Organizing the Elements 81 -- 5 Atom Factories: Making New Elements 113 -- 6 Chemical Brothers: Why Isotopes are Useful 148 -- 7 For All Practical Purposes: Technologies of the Elements 174.
Target Audience Note:
1240L Lexile
Subject:
Chemical elements.

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