- Hardcover: 258 pages
- Publisher: Clarendon Press; 2nd Revised edition edition (Aug 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198555695
- ISBN-13: 978-0198555698
- Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 14.7 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,871,231 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Emsley's excellent compendium has two densely packed pages of information about each of the chemical elements, including physical, chemical, and biological data. This third edition . . . includes new information on such matters as health hazards, mineral sources, electron binding energies, and elements discovered since the second edition. There are brief chapters on the history of the periodic table, and the discovery and the abundance of the elements. Brief index. Strongly recommended as a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate students and faculty."--Choice
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The second edition of this reference book collects the most important facts about all of the chemical elements. Whilst retaining the alphabetical, easy-to-use format of the first edition, the opportunity has been taken to update information and to add a new section on environmental properties to go alongside the existing sections on chemical, physical, nuclear and electron-shell properties of the elements. All numerical data is given in SI units, and the text explains how it can be converted to other units in common use. The book concludes with a series of tables listing selected properties, both in order of the elements and in rank order of the property.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is really one of my favourite books and I spend hours browsing through it. It tells you everything you want to know about all the chemical elements: chemical data, physical data, biological data you might expect but it also tells you how to pronounce the element's name, what it means, where the element was first discovered and ... well everything; even where to buy a sample. There are two pages on each element and not just the school chemistry ones such as hydrogen, sulphur, sodium etc - here you can find out everything you want to know about praseodymium, meitnerium, yttrium etc. Here you can find out which town has three elements named after it. There are also excellent chapters on related material such as the periodic table. Some knowlege of school chemistry is helpful but there are explanatory chapters for that which you have forgotten or perhaps never knew in the first place. John Emsley is a scientist and writer of the first order - a rare combination. I can thoroughly recommend this book to anyone.
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I have found this to be an invaluable compact compendium of information about the elements; it has been carefully compiled with information that is largely up to date.
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Great Reference for Chemists or Chemistry Teachers
27 Mar 1998
Format:Paperback
This is the book that I tell my students is my "bible." I use it in class in and in the preparation of my exams. The information in it is well organized and as up-to-date at it can be for the subject matter. Some of the "elements" are not there but that is because they were discovered after the publication date. I highly recommend this book to my colleagues.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
The Chemical Elements That Make Up The World
14 Dec 2004
Format:Paperback
For the first time all the key facts about the 100 or so elements that make up the world. Easy-to-use in about 300 pages. This is the best book of this type that I have ever seen. "The Elements" is a handy reference for chemistry students and teachers and for the lay person who wants to learn more. You will learn the history and structure of each element and much more.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
plain collection of data
18 Oct 2006
Format:Paperback
I bought this book not realizing that is nothing more that two sheets for each element, collecting useful, but quite easily found data. Do not expect any written text. In the internet era, just look at the NIST site, I hardly see the need of such compilation.
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