2013
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30-Second Elements presents you with the foundations of chemical knowledge, distilling the 50 most significant chemical elements into half-a-minute individual entries, using nothing more than two pages, 300 words, and one picture. Along with biographies of the chemists who transformed scientific knowledge, here is your quickest way to know your plutonium from your europium.
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Author
Eric Scerri
Author · 5 books
Eric Scerri is a chemist, writer and philosopher of science, of Maltese origin. He is a lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles; and the founder and editor-in-chief of Foundations of Chemistry, an international peer reviewed journal covering the history and philosophy of chemistry, and chemical education. He is a world authority on the history and philosophy of the periodic table and is the author and editor of several books in this and related fields.
