The Periodic Table: Its Story and Significance.(Book review)

From: Chemistry International | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: Kaesz, Herbert D. | Copyright information

The Periodic Table: Its Story and Significance

Eric Scerri, Oxford Univ. Press, 2006 xxii + 346 pp. ISBN 0195305736

The form of the periodic table arouses strong partisan feelings. This was evidenced when the Commission on Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry of IUPAC decided to resolve the dichotomy of A/B usage in the Roman numeral column heads of periodic tables. The U.S. sequence differed from the European version, leading to an ambiguity in indexing. IUPA...

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