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

Peter William Atkins (nato il 10 agosto 1940) è un chimico inglese ed ex professore di chimica all'Università di Oxford e membro del Lincoln College. È uno scrittore prolifico di popolari libri di testo di chimica, tra cui Chimica Fisica, Chimica Inorganica e Meccanica Quantistica Molecolare.

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