Encyclopedia
of the Elements:
Technical Data • History • Processing • Applications
by Per Enghag

This comprehensive encyclopedia of the elements provides both an important database for professionals as well as detailed reading ranging from historical facts, discoverers' portraits, colour plates of mineral types, natural occurrences, and industrial figures to winning and refining processes, biological roles and applications in modern chemistry, engineering and industry.

Elemental data is presented in fact tables which include numerous physical and thermodynamic properties, isotope lists, radiation absorption characteristics, NMR parameters, and others. Further pertinent data is supplied in additional tables throughout the text.

Published in Swedish in three volumes from 1998 to 2000, the contents have been revised and expanded by the author for this English edition.

Encyclopedia of the Elements is an important scientific and technical resource for researchers and professionals in industry.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. About Matter
3. The Elements—Origin, Occurrence, Discovery and Names
4. Geochemistry
5. Gold
6. Silver
7. Copper
8. Iron
9. Hydrogen
10. Blowpipe and Spectroscope—Important Tools for Discovering Elements
11. Sodium and Potassium
12. Lithium
13. Rubidium and Cesium
14. Magnesium and Calcium
15. Beryllium
16. Strontium and Barium
17. Scandium, Yttrium, Lanthanum and the 14 Lanthanides—Rare Earth Metals REMs
18. Titanium
19. Zirconium
20. Hafnium
21. Vanadium
22. Niobium
23. Tantalum
24. Chromium
25. Molybdenum
26. Tungsten
27. Manganese
28. Technetium
29. Rhenium
30. Cobalt
31. Nickel
32. Platinum Group Metals
33. Zinc
34. Cadmium
35. Mercury
36. Boron
37. Aluminium
38. Gallium, Indium and Thallium
39. Carbon
40. Silicon
41. Germanium
42. Tin
43. Lead
44. Nitrogen
45. Phosphorus
46. Arsenic, Antimony and Bismuth
47. Oxygen
48. Sulfur
49. Selenium and Tellurium
50. Halogens
51. Noble Gases
52. Radioactive Elements

Index

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