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Wait, don't skip this one: the Periodic Table was probably the bane of your high school chemistry class. You could hardly figure out what the heck it was and it drove you crazy. This is an opportunity to fix that. Chemist Theodore Gray knew that, and he built it -- as an actual table depicting the elements. But this site takes it one better: click any element and not only get a description of what it is, but what it's good for. Lithium, for example: it's a metal light enough to float on water, but you don't want to do that because water makes it explode. But you can make great lightweight (and long life) batteries from it, and plenty more. Amaze your friends at parties with a bit of knowledge about what makes the world around you. From This is True for 30 September 2007 Suggestions for further reading:
 by Theodore Gray Amazon Price: $19.77 Customer Review: The book itself was extremely entertaining but the seller needs to provide more shipping information.  by Simon Basher, Adrian Dingle Amazon Price: $8.99 Customer Review: It's an awesome book because it's about things that the world is made up of. The facts and the drawings are funny because if they were super heroes and super villains I think they would like that. Like for example, chlorine is its color in the book a...  by Peter J. Mikulecky PhD, Katherine Brutlag, Michelle Rose Gilman, Brian Peterson Amazon Price: $13.59 Customer Review: This Could be a good book IF the editor (or author) had taken a few minutes to proof read it for errors. There are content errors in the text (e.g "celsius temperature equals a Kelvin temperature plus 273 degrees" NOT... Kelvin equals Celsius plus ...  by Benjamin Wiker, Jeanne Bendick Amazon Price: $10.17 Customer Review: This book is a history of chemistry from the stone age to the development of the periodic table, including the artificially-produced elements, plus a brief but tantalizing introduction to the hundreds of subatomic particles. If that sounds excruciat...  by School Specialty Publishing Amazon Price: $3.98 Customer Review: It's exactly what it advertises. My only beef with the table is the way they laid it out with the halogens in the same color as the nonmetals. Also the Zinc group should be listed with the Transition Metals but that's an issue that gets debated and... Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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