Periodic system. From a philosophical stone to 118 elements. Anne Runi

Matter is what surrounds us everywhere. How did it appear and what does it consist of? Philosophers and scientists tried to answer these questions for millennia. The most important discoveries were made by Antoine Lavoisier, which made up the first list of chemical elements, and Dmitry Mendeleev, who created a periodic table, in which the elements were located in the order of increasing their atomic mass. But this is only part of the centuries -old history of the periodic system. This book will tell about it.

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