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Indlæser... Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table (2019)af Kit Chapman
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. It's the International Year of the Periodic Table, and I can't think of a better book to mark the occasion than Kit Chapman's gripping and intriguing history of the quest to create new elements. There are anecdotes here that will delight, surprise, inspire and frustrate, woven together with the kind of page-turning momentum you'd expect from an adventure novel At its core, though, it's a story about a particular tribe of scientists, and the lives, rivalries and alliances that they forged as they pushed back one of the great frontiers of knowledge. Those two facets can't have been easy to balance, but Chapman has succeeded in turning this under-appreciated topic in to an effortless, fun, but by no means superficial book. Superheavy is an interesting and engaging review of how the periodic table was populated with the synthetic elements. Chapman writes in a conversational prose that is easy to follow and captures the personality of the scientists involved. He clearly explains the processed involved in creating new elements, and gives credit to both the chemists and physicists involved. All too often, the realm of nuclear reactors is thought to be the exclusive province of theoretical physicists, but Chapman shows how different skills were necessary to create and characterize the heavy elements. The book captures the successes, failures, lucky guesses and mistakes (because science involves all of these) and provides a book that should stand next to the perennial classic, Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb. This is a must read for all scholars of scientific history as well as students eager to understand more about the nature of the periodic table. I received a digital ARC via NetGalley ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Creating an element is no easy feat. It's the equivalent of firing six trillion bullets a second at a needle in a haystack, hoping the bullet and needle somehow fuse together, then catching it in less than a thousandth of a second - after which it's gone forever. Welcome to the world of the superheavy elements: a realm where scientists use giant machines and spend years trying to make a single atom of mysterious artefacts that have never existed on Earth. From the first elements past uranium and their role in the atomic bomb to the latest discoveries stretching our chemical world, Superheavy will reveal the hidden stories lurking at the edges of the periodic table. Why did the US Air Force fly planes into mushroom clouds? Who won the transfermium wars? How did an earthquake help give Japan its first element? And what happened when Superman almost spilled nuclear secrets? In a globe-trotting adventure that stretches from the United States to Russia, Sweden to Australia, Superheavy is your guide to the amazing science filling in the missing pieces of the periodic table. By the end you'll not only marvel at how nuclear science has changed our lives - you'll wonder where it's going to take us in the future. No library descriptions found. |
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The book is poorly illustrated but there’s a documentary here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe5WT22-AO8
which focuses on the Ninov fraud and which uses this book as a main source. It has the best graphical representation of the periodic table I’ve seen and really helped me understand what these scientists were doing. ( )