Everything you wanted to know about the chemical elements
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This is really one of my favourite books and I spend hours browsing through it. It tells you everything you want to know about all the chemical elements: chemical data, physical data, biological data you might expect but it also tells you how to pronounce the element's name, what it means, where the element was first discovered and ... well everything; even where to buy a sample. There are two pages on each element and not just the school chemistry ones such as hydrogen, sulphur, sodium etc - here you can find out everything you want to know about praseodymium, meitnerium, yttrium etc. Here you can find out which town has three elements named after it. There are also excellent chapters on related material such as the periodic table. Some knowlege of school chemistry is helpful but there are explanatory chapters for that which you have forgotten or perhaps never knew in the first place. John Emsley is a scientist and writer of the first order - a rare combination. I can thoroughly recommend this book to anyone.
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