The Elements: A Very Short Introduction

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dc.contributor.author	Ball, Philip	-
dc.date.accessioned	2019-07-25T11:50:54Z	-
dc.date.available	2019-07-25T11:50:54Z	-
dc.date.issued	2002	-
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-19-284099-8	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/76948	-
dc.description	When I was asked to write an introduction to the elements as a companion volume to my book Stories of the Invisible, itself an introduction to molecules, I had mixed feelings. After all, in the earlier book I had been perhaps less than respectful towards the Periodic Table, that famous portrait of all the known chemical elements. Specifically, I had suggested that chemists cease to promote the notion that chemistry begins with this table, since a basic understanding of molecular science need embrace only a very limited selection of the hundred or more elements that the table now contains. No piano tutor would start by instructing a young pupil to play every note on the keyboard. Far better to show how just a few keys suffice for constructing a host of simple tunes. As music is about tunes, chords, and harmonies, not notes per se, so chemistry is about compounds and molecules, not elements	en
dc.language	en	en
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Oxford	en_US
dc.subject	The Elements: A Very Short Introduction	en_US
dc.title	The Elements: A Very Short Introduction	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US
Appears in Collections:	Chemistry

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