The elements book : a visual encyclopedia of the periodic table

Author

Tom Jackson

Call Number

• 546.8 J144 TEEN (CEN)

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Edition

First American edition.

Publication Information

New York, New York : DK Publishing, 2017.

Physical Description

208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Summary

Profiles every element on the periodic table and describes their properties, when they were discovered, and how they are used in household materials.--

Notes

"DK Smithsonian."

Includes index.

Contents

• Elemental building blocks
• Chemical discoveries
• Inside an atom
• Periodic table of elements
• Reactions and uses
• Hydrogen
• Alkali metals
• Alkaline earth metals
• Transition metals
• Lanthanides
• Actinides
• The Boron group
• The Carbon group
• The Nitrogen group
• The Oxygen group
• The Halogen Group
• Noble gases.