The Periodic Table of the Elements: No. 32 (Oxford Chemistry S.) - Softcover

Puddephatt, Richard J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198555164 ISBN 13: 9780198555162

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1986

Synopsis

The periodic table provides an excellent basis for understanding the enormous developments in inorganic chemistry and continues to play a fundamental role in the planning of new developments in chemistry. The first part of this book shows how the periodic table is constructed on the basis of the atomic structures of the elements, and the later chapters, using the periodic table as central theme, describe the physical and chemical properties of the elements and their compounds. For the second edition, the authors have added a fuller discussion of chemical bonding, emphasized the problem of classifying compounds too rigorously as purely ionic or covalent, and incorporated more material on the anomalous behavior of first row elements and the discovery of new elements. "The arguments are so clearly and logically developed that the book achieves an unusually coherent account of the concept of periodicity."--The Times Higher Education Supplement, on the first edition

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Synopsis

This new edition includes the discovery of several new elements and many new chemical compounds. It has been expanded to give more examples of periodic trends in the properties of the elements and their compounds.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198555164
• ISBN 13: 9780198555162
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 110