Bibliograph

The periodic table, from hydrogen to oganesson, Anne Rooney

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The periodic table, from hydrogen to oganesson, Anne Rooney

Language

eng

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The periodic table

Responsibility statement

Anne Rooney

Series statement

How the world works

Sub title

from hydrogen to oganesson

Summary

Everything in the universe is made of chemical elements - including you. In 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev produced a periodic table designed to illustrate the properties of the known elements. This arrangement of the elements in order of increasing atomic number was an important milestone in the development of chemistry, and led to the establishment of periodic law. Written in a straightforward, easily comprehensible way, The Periodic Table explores the story of each element, describing the people who discovered them, and taking us on a journey of discovery into what the whole world is made of

Target audience

adult

Creator