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208 pages : colour illustrations + 1 poster On cover: Includes amazing periodic table poster Summary: Presents all 118 elements in one volume packed with imagesand facts. (Back cover) Profiles every element on the periodic table and describes their properties, when they were discovered, and how they are used in household materials.
Partial contents Elemental building blocks -- Chemical discoveries -- Inside an atom -- Periodic table of elements -- Reactions and uses -- Hydrogen -- Alkali medals -- Alkaline earth metals -- Transition metals -- Lanthanides -- Actinides -- The Boron group -- The Carbon groups -- The Nitrogen group -- The Oxygen group -- The Halogen group -- Noble gases -- Glossary.