Elements: Facts at Your Fingertips (Pocket Eyewitness)

CONTENTS
What is an element?
Inside an atom
Grouping the elements
Periodic table
HYDROGEN
	Hydrogen
ALKALI METALS
	Lithium, Sodium, Potassium
	Rubidium, Caesium, Francium
ALKALINE EARTH METALS
	Beryllium, Magnesium, Calcium
	Strontium, Barium, Radium
TRANSITION METALS
	Scandium, Titanium
	Vanadium, Chromium, Manganese
	Iron, Cobalt
	Nickel, Copper, Zinc
	Yttrium, Zirconium, Niobium, Molybdenum
	Technetium, Ruthenium, Palladium, Rhodium
	Silver, Cadmium, Hafnium
	Tantalum, Tungsten, Rhenium, Iridium, Osmium
	Platinum, Gold
	Mercury, Rutherfordium,
	Bohrium, Hassium, Meitnerium, Darmstadtium, Roentgenium, Copernicium
LANTHANIDES
	Lanthanum, Cerium, Praseodymium
	Neodymium, Promethium, Europium, Samarium, Gadolinium
	Terbium, Dysprosium, Holmium
	Thulium, Erbium, Lutetium, Ytterbium
ACTINIDES
	Actinium, Thorium, Protactinium
	Uranium, Neptunium, Plutonium
	Americium, Berkelium, Einsteinium, Curium, Californium
	Fermium, Mendelevium, Nobelium, Lawrencium
BORON GROUP
	Boron, Aluminium
	Gallium, Indium, Thallium, Nihonium
CARBON GROUP
	Carbon, Silicon
	Germanium, Flerovium, Tin, Lead
NITROGEN GROUP
	Nitrogen
	Phosphorus, Arsenic
	Antimony, Bismuth, Moscovium
OXYGEN GROUP
	Oxygen, Sulfur
	Selenium, Tellurium, Polonium, Livermorium
HALOGEN GROUP
	Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine
	Iodine, Tennessine, Astatine
NOBLE GASES
	Helium, Neon, Argon
	Krypton, Xenon, Radon, Oganesson
Fascinating facts
What’s in a name?
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgments