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*24514$aThe elements :$ba very short introduction  /$cPhilip Ball
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This Very Short Introduction traces the history and cultural impact of the elements on humankind, and examines why people have long sought to identify the substances around them. Looking beyond the Periodic Table, the author takes the reader on an engaging and entertaining tour: from the Greek philosophers who propounded a system with four elements - earth, air, fire, and water - to the modern-day scientists who are able to create their own.

• Aristotle's Quartet: The elements in antiquity
• Revolution: How oxygen changed the world
• Gold: The most desirable element
• The Eightfold Path: Organizing the elements
• The Atom Factories: Making new elements
• The Chemical Brothers: Why isotopes are useful
• For All Practical Purposes: Technologies of the elements
• End notes
• Further reading