Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (918 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00K6XLQTA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 236 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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“All of chemistry starts with the periodic table”… … as the author, Eric Scerri proclaims in this excellent, and long overdue refresher course on a key aspect of the study of matter. I live in Albuquerque, where the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History is located. The entrance floor to the museum is composed of large marble tiles, arranged in the shape and order of the periodic table, with each tile engraved with the symbol of one of the atomic elements, along with its number and weigh. R. M. Peterson said Another fine installment in the "A Very Short Introduction" Series. The last time I gave any focused attention to the periodic table was in high school chemistry, back in 1966. I vaguely remembered it as an aesthetically pleasing intellectual construct, so when I stumbled across this installment in Oxford University Press's "A Very Short Introduction" series, I decided to revisit it. I am glad I did.Eric Scerri lectures in chemistry and the history and philosophy of science at UCLA. For a writer on scientific matters, . A nice look at how we got the periodic table This short book provides a good overview of the history and development of the periodic table. And, in spite of its brevity, it covers just about everything that anyone other than a chemist or a historian of science might reasonably need to know about the subject. It is well written, and (with the one exception noted below) is reasonably easy to understand. As far as I'm concerned, this book has only two, relatively minor shortcomings: First, the autho
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.. In this authoritative Very Short Introduction to 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