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The second edition of this innovative textbook has been completely revised and updated, including more than 2000 new literature references to work published since the first edition. It presents a balanced, coherent and comprehensive account of the chemistry of the elements for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. The book covers not only the "inorganic" and other elements, but also analytical, theoretical, industrial, organometallic, bio-organic and other cognate areas of chemistry. Students will benefit from the author's highly successful approach based on descriptive chemistry. The chemistry of the elements is still discussed within the context of an underlying theoretical framework, giving cohesion and structure to the text, but all times the chemical facts are emphasized. Students are invited to enter the exciting world of chemical phenomena with a sound knowledge and uinderstanding of the subject, to approach experimentation with an open mind, and to assess obervations reliably. This book that students will not only value during their formal educatuiobn, but will keep and refer to throught their careers as chemists.

INDICE: Origin of the elements, isotopes and atomic weighys. Chemical periodicity and the periodic table. Hydrogen. Lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium and francium. Beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium and radium..