Title:
Superheavy : making and breaking the periodic table
Publication Date:
2019
Publication Information:
London, UK : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2019.
©2019
Physical Description:
304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9781472953896
9781472953902
Abstract:
Explores how scientists create superheavy elements, using giant machines to try to make single atoms of mysterious artefacts that have never existed on Earth. From the first elements past uranium and their role in the devlopment of the atomic bomb to the latest discoveries stretching the chemical world, Superheavy reveals the hidden stories lurking at the edge of the periodic table.
General Note:
Series number from title page verso.
Periodic table of the elements on lining-papers.
Contents:
Children of the atom -- Transfermium wars -- The end of chemistry.
Language:
English
