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Mendeleev to Oganesson : a multidisciplinary perspective on the periodic table / edited by Eric Scerri and Guillermo Restrepo.
LIBRA QD467 .M4294 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Periodic table of the elements.
- Periodic law.
- Chemistry--History--19th century.
- Chemistry.
- Chemical elements.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 314 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- An edited volume featuring chapters on multidisciplinary aspects of the Periodic Table, particularly focusing on the history and philosophy of chemistry.
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Roald Hoffmann
- Introduction
- Heavy, superheavy...quo vadis? / Paul J. Karol
- Nuclear lattice model and the electronic configuration of the chemical elements / Jozsef Garai
- Amateurs and professionals in chemistry : the case of the periodic system / Philip J. Stewart
- The periodic system : a mathematical approach / Guillermo Restrepo
- The "chemical mechanics" of the periodic table / Arnout Ceulemans and Pieter Thyssen
- The grand periodic function / Jan C.A. Boeyens
- What elements belong in Group 3 of the periodic table? / Eric R. Scerri and William Parsons
- The periodic table retrieved from density functional theory based concepts : the electron density, the shape function and the linear response function / Paul Geerlings
- Resemioticization of periodicity : a social semiotic perspective / Yu Liu
- Organizing the transition metals / Geoff Rayner-Canham
- The earth scientist's periodic table of the elements and their ions : a new periodic table founded on non-traditional concepts / L. Bruce Railshack
- The origin of Mendeleev's discovery of the periodic system / Masanori Kaji
- Richard Abegg and the periodic table / William B. Jensen
- The chemist as philosopher : D.I. Mendeleev's "The unit" and "Worldview" / Michael D. Gordin
- The philosophical importance of the periodic table / Mark Weinstein.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190668532
- 0190668539
- OCLC:
- 1000127532
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