Superheavy : making and breaking the periodic table / Kit Chapman.
Explores how scientists create superheavy elements, using giant machines to try to make single atoms of mysterious artefacts that have never existed on Earth. From the first elements past uranium and their role in the development of the atomic bomb to the latest discoveries stretching the chemical w...
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| Other title: | Making and breaking the periodic table. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London, UK ; New York :
Bloomsbury Sigma, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2019.
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| Series: | Bloomsbury sigma series ;
bk. 45. |
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Table of Contents:
- Children of the Atom. Modern alchemy ; The secret of Gilman Hall ; How to build a nuclear weapon ; Superman vs the FBI ; Universitium ofium Californium Berkelium ; The death of Jimmy Robinson ; Presidents and beetles
- Transfermium Wars. Novelievium ; From Russia with flerov ; The east and the west ; Xanthasia and the magic numbers ; Life at the edge of science ; The atoms that came in from the cold ; Changing the rules ; How to name your element
- The End of Chemistry. After the wall came down ; The Ninov fraud ; A new hope ; Beams of the rising sun ; The edge of the unknown ; Beyond superheavy.