Title:	The Elements: A Very Short Introduction
Authors:	Ball, Philip
Keywords:	The Elements: A Very Short Introduction
Issue Date:	2002
Publisher:	Oxford
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
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/76948
ISBN:	978-0-19-284099-8
Appears in Collections:	Chemistry

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