A Visual Encyclopedia of the Periodic Table

199 Noble Gases Oganesson Og 118 The heaviest element yet made is oganesson. Scientists think it would be solid at room temperat ...

200 Glossary Acid A compound that contains hydrogen, and releases ions of hydrogen when it is dissolved in water. These ions mak ...

201 Glossary Hardness A measure of how easy it is to scratch or cut a substance with another substance. Hydroxide A type of comp ...

202 Glossary Laser A beam of light with a single wavelength, in which the waves are all perfectly in step. Lasers are used in el ...

203 Glossary Period A set of elements in a row in the periodic table. Each atom of the elements in the first period have one ele ...

204 Index Index Page numbers in bold indicate a main entry. A acid rain 169 actinides 119 actinium 119, 120 , 121 aerogel 147 ae ...

205 Death Valley, USA 130 dental equipment 25, 76, 94 diamonds 142, 144–145 diaspore 136 diving clothing 183 DNA 159 dolomite 40 ...

206 IndexK kernite 130 Kirchhoff, Gustav 34 kohl 161 krypton 188, 196 L Lamy, Claude-Auguste 138 lanthanides 109 lanthanum 109, ...

207 rhodium 81 rhodochrosite 58 RIKEN Nuclear Research Centre, Japan 139 rock salt 29 rockets 21, 167 Röntgen, Wilhelm 106 roent ...

208 Acknowledgements ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The publisher would like to thank the following people for their help with making the book ...

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Foreword 6 Elemental building blocks 8 Chemical discoveries 10 Inside an atom 12 Periodic table of elements 14 Reactions and use ...

Rutherfordium, Dubnium, - Glossary - Index - Acknowledgements Scandium, Titanium Vanadium, Chr ...

Everything in nature, from the mountains and the oceans to the air we breathe and food we eat are made up of simple substances c ...

for each element, grouping them into similar types. With this information, we can use the elements to make many things we need: ...

8 Introduction Elemental building blocks Elements in our world There are 118 elements in the periodic table; 92 of them are foun ...