The elements : a very short introduction / Philip Ball.

Author: Ball, Philip, 1962-

Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Description179 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

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

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 164) and index.

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