Much ado about (practically) nothing :: a history of the noble gases /

There are eight columns in the Periodic Table. The eighth column is comprised of the rare gases, so-called because they are the rarest elements on earth. They are also called the inert or noble gases because, like nobility, they do no work. They are colorless, odorless, invisible gases which do not...

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1. Verfasser: Fisher, David E., 1932-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Zusammenfassung:There are eight columns in the Periodic Table. The eighth column is comprised of the rare gases, so-called because they are the rarest elements on earth. They are also called the inert or noble gases because, like nobility, they do no work. They are colorless, odorless, invisible gases which do not react with anything, and were thought to be unimportant until the early 1960s. Starting in that era, David Fisher has spent roughly fifty years doing research on these gases, publishing nearly a hundred papers in the scientific journals, applying them to problems in geophysics and cosmochemistry, an.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 264 pages :)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199750849
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