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The lost elements: the periodic table's shadow side/
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Oxford:
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Before 1789: early errors and early elements
- 1789-1869: from Lavoisier to Mendeleev: the first errors at the dawn of the concept of the chemical element
- 1869-1913: from the periodic table to Moseley's law: rips and tears in Mendeleev's net
- 1914-1939: from nuclear classification to the first accelerators: chemists' paradise lost... (and physicists' paradise regained)
- 1939-present: beyond uranium, to the stars
- Modern alchemy: the dream to transmute the elements has always been with us.