Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

The periodic table of the elements is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of passion, adventure, obsession, and betrayal. These tales follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold, and all the elements in the table as they play out their parts in human history. The usual suspects are here, like Marie Curie (and her radioactive journey to the discovery of polonium and radium) and William Shockley (who is credited, not exactly justly,...

Web-style "homepages" introduce to budding chemists each of the chemical elements from the periodic table, complete with witty and informative profiles written by the elements themselves.

The elements in the periodic table are the ingredients that make up our world. Explore elements such as carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, and learn why they are essential to our survival. See how precious gold protects astronauts in space, and why the metal mercury can be both a solid and a liquid. Find out about man-made elements, which the smartest chemists are busy figuring out how to use. Learn about scores of other elements, including silver, the...

Gives instrucitons for a variety of experiments that examine the characteristics of some of the common elements around us.

Profiles every element on the periodic table and describes their properties, when they were discovered, and how they are used in household materials.--

An introductory journey through the periodic table explains how every tangible object is comprised of the various elements, while chronicling the history of element discovery and explaining how elemental knowledge can be applied

Including photographs of chemistry happening and boxes that contain examples of science at work, this book discusses the group of materials known as nonmetals.