Do you love chemistry as much as I do? So today we’re going to learn about the chemical elements. What are they like? What’s their nature? How do they make friends with each other? And where do they most often live? Here you will find the most interesting things about each of them, the most piquant details and interesting scientific facts. I assure you, though with the help of this book you will not write a scientific dissertation, but you will remember every element forever. And in this you will be helped by hundreds of photos of objects, which will forever remain in the memory associated with the element of which they are composed. Can you now remember all 118 abstruse names and tell what they are? After reading this book, chemistry will not scare you, and the elements will be your best friends. The book consists of several parts. The first part is devoted to an overview of the entire table, from which you can understand why the table looks exactly like this, and on what principle its main residents – the elements – are arranged in it. The main part of the book is devoted to a description of each element and is accompanied by photographs of objects that represent the elements or the elements themselves.
In addition, on the right-hand margin of the spread is a mini-tablet that lists the chemical values of the elements. By the way, I found my husband’s favorite element on the pages, which I often hear from him) Guess which one?
The book itself is pretty weighty, heavy (because of the coated pages), square format. Very pleased with the design of the cover, and the book itself. It is designed in black, this also applies to the pages, printed on a black background text in white typeface. And on the cover the table is ruled, and it seems that the elements shine with neon.
The author of the book is the most famous collector of chemical elements, Theodore Gray, one of the founders of Wolfram Research. He built his own wooden Periodic Table with special cells for each element in the table, which he has been filling for about 10 years. This table earned him the Schnobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002. Gray has collected almost all the elements, such as hydrogen, silicon, sulfur, mercury, tungsten, uranium, niobium, bromine, and bismuth. His wooden table, The Periodic Table, contains 2,300 items representing all the elements, the possession of which is not contrary to the laws of physics and the United States. Many of them can be seen on the pages of the book. In addition, there is a special site where you can see all these elements from his collection, which are also arranged each in its own cell, turned out a kind of virtual collection and you can visit it right now http://periodictable.com/.
And you can also “visit” Theodore Gray and see the famous wooden table with your own eyes http://www.theodoregray.com/