Much ado about (practically) nothing : a history of the noble gases /
There are eight columns in the Periodic Table. The eighth column is comprised of the rare gases, so-called because they are the rarest elements on earth. They are also called the inert or noble gases because, like nobility, they do no work. They are colorless, odorless, invisible gases which do not...
| Основен автор: | Fisher, David E., 1932- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=336210 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Much ado about (practically) nothing. |
| Резюме: |
There are eight columns in the Periodic Table. The eighth column is comprised of the rare gases, so-called because they are the rarest elements on earth. They are also called the inert or noble gases because, like nobility, they do no work. They are colorless, odorless, invisible gases which do not react with anything, and were thought to be unimportant until the early 1960s. Starting in that era, David Fisher has spent roughly fifty years doing research on these gases, publishing nearly a hundred papers in the scientific journals, applying them to problems in geophysics and cosmochemistry, an. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 264 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780199750849 019975084X |