The Elements: Their Origin, Abundance, and Distribution
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Book Overview
Here is the first book to provide a complete natural history of the elements. This interdisciplinary guide will give the reader a broad, non-technical view of the origin of the elements, the factors controlling their abundances, and their distributions in the Earth, solar system, and
universe. This unique volume is based on a series of lectures given for freshman chemistry students and will be of equal value to both undergraduates and professors in all physical sciences. It includes a broad introduction to the range of existing elements and information on their nuclear and
chemical properties, as well as coverage of radioactive elements, the condensation of the elements, the elements of life and the oceans. Valuable appendix materials include coverage of elemental abundances and isotopic composition, while suggestions for further reading are provided at the end of
each chapter.
universe. This unique volume is based on a series of lectures given for freshman chemistry students and will be of equal value to both undergraduates and professors in all physical sciences. It includes a broad introduction to the range of existing elements and information on their nuclear and
chemical properties, as well as coverage of radioactive elements, the condensation of the elements, the elements of life and the oceans. Valuable appendix materials include coverage of elemental abundances and isotopic composition, while suggestions for further reading are provided at the end of
each chapter.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:019855298X
ISBN13:9780198552987
Release Date:August 1989
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:216 Pages
Weight:0.86 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
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Great recreational reading for chemists
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This work by P.A. Cox offers a useful overview of how matter came to be distributed as we see it today. Despite its age, little has changed in the basics that are presented here. The book is quite specialized; it is targeted towards chemists, cut covers topics primarily out of cosmology and geology, so it is certainly not for everyone. I would strongly recommend it to anyone with an interest in the subject and at least a batchelor's degree in chemistry. Personally, I use this book as the basis for a lecture in a senior-level university Inorganic Chemistry course.
About the chemical elements
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Please see at: www.sciteclibrary.ru"On the problem of crystal metallic lattice in densest packing..."Henadzi Filipenka"The model of atom,s nucleus and the table of elements"Henadzi Filipenka
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