PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS
CONTENTS ONE A SHORT HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY THE BEGINNINGS OF SCIENCE ORIGINS OF THE EARTH’S CHEMICAL ELEMENTS EARLY USES OF CHEMISTRY THE AGE OF ALCHEMY THE AGE OF MODERN CHEMISTRY ELEMENTS AND COMPOUNDS TWO ATOMIC STRUCTURE EARLY IDEAS OF ATOMIC STRUCTURE SOME THEORETICAL ATOMIC MODELS THE NUCLEUS AND RADIATION CHEMICAL BONDING ORGANIC CHEMISTRY FULLERENES AND NANOTECHNOLOGY THREE THE PERIODIC TABLE OF THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS HISTORY RULES FOR CATALOGING THE ELEMENTS ISOTOPES RADIOACTIVITY FOUR GUIDE TO THE ELEMENTS INTRODUCTION ALKALI METALS: PERIODS 1 TO 7, GROUP 1 (IA) HYDROGEN LITHIUM SODIUM POTASSIUM RUBIDIUM CESIUM FRANCIUM ALKALI EARTH METALS: PERIODS 2 TO 7, GROUP 2 (IIA) BERYLLIUM MAGNESIUM CALCIUM STRONTIUM BARIUM RADIUM TRANSITION ELEMENTS: METALS TO NONMETALS TRANSITION ELEMENTS: FIRST SERIES—PERIOD 4, GROUPS 3 TO SCANDIUM TITANIUM VANADIUM CHROMIUM MANGANESE IRON COBALT NICKEL COPPER ZINC TRANSITION ELEMENTS: SECOND SERIES—PERIOD 5, GROUPS 3 TO YTTRIUM ZIRCONIUM NIOBIUM MOLYBDENUM TECHNETIUM RUTHENIUM RHODIUM PALLADIUM SILVER CADMIUM TRANSITION ELEMENTS: THIRD SERIES—PERIOD 6, GROUPS 4 TO HAFNIUM TANTALUM TUNGSTEN RHENIUM OSMIUM IRIDIUM PLATINUM GOLD MERCURY METALLICS—METALLOIDS—SEMICONDUCTORS—NONMETALS THE BORON GROUP (METALLICS TO SEMIMETALS): PERIODS 2 TO 6, GROUP 13 (IIIA) BORON ALUMINUM GALLIUM INDIUM THALLIUM THE CARBON GROUP (METALLOIDS TO SEMICONDUCTORS): PERIODS 2 TO 6, GROUP 14 (IVA) CARBON SILICON GERMANIUM TIN LEAD THE NITROGEN GROUP (METALLOIDS TO NONMETALS): PERIODS 2 TO 6, GROUP 15 (VA) NITROGEN PHOSPHORUS ARSENIC ANTIMONY BISMUTH THE OXYGEN GROUP (OXIDIZERS AND NONMETALS): PERIODS 2 TO 6, GROUP 16 (VIA) OXYGEN OZONE (ALSO GROUP 16) SULFUR SELENIUM TELLURIUM POLONIUM THE HALOGEN GROUP (NONMETAL OXIDIZERS): PERIODS 2 TO 6, GROUP 17 (VIIA) FLUORINE CHLORINE BROMINE IODINE ASTATINE THE NOBLE GASES (INERT GAS ELEMENTS): PERIODS 2 TO 6, GROUP 18 (VIIIA) HELIUM NEON ARGON KRYPTON XENON RADON LANTHANIDE SERIES (RARE-EARTH ELEMENTS): PERIOD LANTHANUM CERIUM PRASEODYMIUM NEODYMIUM PROMETHIUM SAMARIUM EUROPIUM GADOLINIUM TERBIUM DYSPROSIUM HOLMIUM ERBIUM THULIUM YTTERBIUM LUTETIUM ACTINIDE SERIES (PERIOD 7) AND TRANSURANIC ELEMENTS* ACTINIUM THORIUM PROTACTINIUM URANIUM NEPTUNIUM PLUTONIUM AMERICIUM CURIUM BERKELIUM CALIFORNIUM EINSTEINIUM FERMIUM MENDELEVIUM NOBELIUM LAWRENCIUM TRANSACTINIDE SERIES: PERIOD 7 (CONTINUATION OF ACTINIDE SERIES) RUTHERFORDIUM (UNNILQUADIUM) DUBNIUM (UNNILPENTIUM) SEABORGIUM (UNNILHEXIUM) BOHRIUM (UNNILSEPTIUM) HASSIUM (UNNILOCTIUM) MEITNERIUM (UNNILENNIUM) DARMSTADTIUM (UNUNNILIUM) RÖENTGENIUM (UNUNUNIUM) UNUNBIUM (112 UUB-285) UNUNTRIUM (113 UUT-284) THE SUPERACTINIDES (SUPER HEAVY ELEMENTS) AND POSSIBLE FUTURE ELEMENTS UNUNQUADIUM (114 UUQ) UNUNPENTIUM (115 UUP) UNUNHEXIUM (116 UUH) UNUNSEPTIUM (117 UUS) UNUNOCTIUM (118 UUO) POSSIBLE FUTURE ELEMENTS