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The elements : a very short introduction
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The elements : a very short introduction

Philip Ball

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"First published as The ingredients, 2002"--T.p. verso.

Contents

1. Aristotle's quartet : the elements in antiquity
2. Revolution : how oxygen changed the world
3. Gold : the glorious and accursed element
4. The eightfold path : organizing the elements
5. The atom factories : making new elements
6. The chemical brothers : why isotopes are useful
7. For all practical purposes : technologies of the elements.

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