Elements: Facts at Your Fingertips

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Find out about all 118 elements, the building blocks of matter that make up our entire universe, in this pocket-sized encyclopedia. Discover all the major elements of the periodic table, arranged in chapters according to their group, including alkaline earth metals, lanthanides, and noble gases. Every important element - from hydrogen via carbon, oxygen, and gold to oganesson (that's element number 118) - is presented here. Every entry includes a photo of the element in its raw state or in use, as well as its date of discovery and atomic information as found on the periodic table. Plus here are stunning full-page photos showing elements as you have never seen them before - perhaps inside machinery that you can't normally delve into; or in stunning macro photography that reveals microscopic details invisible to the human eye. The Pocket Eyewitness series is perfect for all children, from reluctant readers who can easily digest the key points through to budding Marie Curies and Louis Pasteurs who want to know more about the most essential particles on the planet. CONTENTS What is an element? Inside an atom Grouping the elements Periodic table HYDROGEN Hydrogen ALKALI METALS Lithium, Sodium, Potassium Rubidium, Cesium, Francium ALKALINE EARTH METALS Beryllium, Magnesium, Calcium Strontium, Barium, Radium TRANSITION METALS Scandium, Titanium Vanadium, Chromium, Manganese Iron, Cobalt Nickel, Copper, Zinc Yttrium, Zirconium, Niobium, Molybdenum Technetium, Ruthenium, Palladium, Rhodium Silver, Cadmium, Hafnium Tantalum, Tungsten, Rhenium, Iridium, Osmium Platinum, Gold Mercury, Rutherfordium, Bohrium, Hassium, Meitnerium, Darmstadtium, Roentgenium, Copernicium LANTHANIDES Lanthanum, Cerium, Praseodymium Neodymium, Promethium, Europium, Samarium, Gadolinium Terbium, Dysprosium, Holmium Thulium, Erbium, Lutetium, Ytterbium ACTINIDES Actinium, Thorium, Protactinium Uranium, Neptunium, Plutonium Americium, Berkelium, Einsteinium, Curium, Californium Fermium, Mendelevium, Nobelium, Lawrencium BORON GROUP Boron, Aluminum Gallium, Indium, Thallium, Nihonium CARBON GROUP Carbon, Silicon Germanium, Flerovium, Tin, Lead NITROGEN GROUP Nitrogen Phosphorus, Arsenic Antimony, Bismuth, Moscovium OXYGEN GROUP Oxygen, Sulfur Selenium, Tellurium, Polonium, Livermorium HALOGEN GROUP Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine Iodine, Tennessine, Astatine NOBLE GASES Helium, Neon, Argon Krypton, Xenon, Radon, Oganesson Fascinating facts What’s in a name? Glossary Index Acknowledgments