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9780199582495

The Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction

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    9780199582495

  • ISBN10:

    0199582491

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-01-13
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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In this authoritative Very Short Introductionto the periodic table, Eric Scerri presents a modern and fresh exploration of this fundamental topic in the physical sciences, considering the deeper implications of the arrangements of the table to atomic physics and quantum mechanics. Scerri looks at the trends in properties of elements that led to the construction of the periodic table, and how the deeper meaning of its structure gradually became apparent with the development of atomic theory and quantum mechanics, so that physics arguably came to colonize an entirely different science, chemistry.

Author Biography


Eric Scerri is a lecturer in chemistry as well as history and philosophy of science at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. xi
List of illustrationsp. xiii
Prefacep. xvii
The elementsp. 1
A quick overview of the modern periodic tablep. 10
Atomic weight, triads, and Proutp. 30
Steps towards the periodic tablep. 42
The Russian genius - Mendeleevp. 58
Physics invades the periodic tablep. 72
Electronic structurep. 84
Quantum mechanicsp. 98
Modern alchemy: from missing elements to synthetic elementsp. 109
Forms of the periodic tablep. 122
Further readingp. 139
Indexp. 141
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