The periodic kingdom: a journey into the land of the chemical elements pdf

Peter William Atkins (né le 10 août 1940) est un chimiste anglais et ancien professeur de chimie à l'Université d'Oxford et membre du Lincoln College. Il est un auteur prolifique de manuels de chimie populaires, notamment de chimie physique, de chimie inorganique et de mécanique quantique moléculaire.

The periodic kingdom: a journey into the land of the chemical elements pdf par Peter William Atkins

The Periodic Kingdom is a journey of imagination in which Peter Atkins treats the periodic table of elements - the 109 chemical elements in the world, from which everything is made - as a country, a periodic kingdom, each region of which corresponds to an element. Arranged much like a travel guide, the book introduces the reader to the general features of the table, the history of the elements, and the underlying arrangement of the table in terms of the structure and properties of atoms. Atkins sees elements as finely balanced living personalities, with quirks of character and certain, not always outward, dispositions, and the kingdom is thus a land of intellectual satisfaction and infinite delight.