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Chemistry and Chemists in Florence [[electronic resource] ] : From the Last of the Medici Family to the European Magnetic Resonance Center / / by Marco Fontani, Mary Virginia Orna, Mariagrazia Costa
| Chemistry and Chemists in Florence [[electronic resource] ] : From the Last of the Medici Family to the European Magnetic Resonance Center / / by Marco Fontani, Mary Virginia Orna, Mariagrazia Costa |
| Autore | Fontani Marco |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (130 p.) |
| Disciplina | 540.945 |
| Collana | History of Chemistry |
| Soggetto topico |
Chemistry—History
History Italy—History History of Chemistry History of Science History of Italy |
| ISBN | 3-319-30856-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Historical Background -- Scientists and Naturalists from the Time of the Last of the Medici Family (1694) to the Period of the Museum of Physics and Natural History (1775-1807) -- Chemists in the Period of the Lyceum of Physical and Natural Studies (1807-1859) -- Chemists in the Period of the Institute of Higher Practical Studies and Specialization (1859-1924) -- Chemists in the Period of the Royal University of Florence (1924-1946) -- Chemists in the Period of the University of Florence (1946-2000) -- Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910254030503321 |
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 | ||
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The lost elements [[electronic resource] ] : the Periodic Table's shadow side / / Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna
| The lost elements [[electronic resource] ] : the Periodic Table's shadow side / / Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna |
| Autore | Fontani Marco <1969-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (585 pages) ; : illustrations |
| Disciplina |
546.8
546/.8 |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Chemical elements
Chemical elements - History Periodic law - History Chemistry - Nomenclature - History Chemistry Elements químics Química - Nomenclatura - Història Taula periòdica (Química) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books |
| ISBN |
9780199383368
0199383367 9780199383344 0-19-756296-5 0-19-938335-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Introduction -- Why collect into one volume the discoveries of elements that have been shown to be erroneous or have been forgotten? -- How "an element" became a "chemical element" -- Is there any order to the discoveries of the elements? -- The development of the Periodic Table -- PART I: Before 1789: early errors and early elements -- Prologue to Part I -- 1. The beginning of a long series of scientific blunders : Terra Nobilis ; Siderum and Hydrosiderum ; Synneium or Australium ; The element that breathes ; The birth of homeopathy -- 2. The elements hidden by alternative names : Metallum Problematicum or Tellurium ; Ochroite or Cerium ; Ceresium or Palladium ; Erythronium, Panchromium, or Vanadium --
PART II: 1789-1869: from Lavoisier to Mendeleev: The first errors at the dawn of the concept of the chemical element -- Prologue to Part II -- 1. Analytical methodology from Lavoisier to Mendeleev ; Blowpipe analysis ; Qualitative and quantitative analysis ; Electrolysis ; Emission spectroscopy -- 2. The elements of the Kingdom of Naples : Ruprecht and Tondi: two metallurgists without metals ; Playing bingo with five elements ; The extraction procedure of the new metals ; Right or wrong, was Tondi the victim of a sworn enemy? ; The elements that replaced those of Tondi ; Possible present-day interpretations ; Revolution offers a second career possibility -- 3. Austrium: One element, two elements, three elements, and finally, zero elements : The first fleeting attempt to name an element Austrium ; Austrium: a posthumous element ; The "Austrian element" of a Czech chemist ; A third "split" for Bohuslav Brauner -- 4. The return of the Olympians: Silene, Aridium, Saturnum, Pelopium, Dianium, Neptunium, and Plutonium ; Silene ; Aridium ; Saturnum ; Pelopium ; Dianium ; Neptunium ; Plutonium -- 5. the unfortunate affair of a student of Kant: A career soldier, but a chemist by passion : Niccolanum ; The road from oblivion -- 6. André-Marie Ampère burst onto the chemistry scene : "Photore" -- 7. Cadmium: "Bone of contention" among chemical elements : A related discovery increases the confusion: Vestium -- 8. A fireproof family of chemists : Chemistry as the common denominator ; The most improbable of the chemical elements -- 9. A bridge of false hopes between divinity and false elements : Crodonium ; Wodanium ; False elements exchanged for another false element ; Ptene ; Donarium -- 10. Gahnium, Polonium, and Pluranium : Gahnium ; Polinium an Pluranium -- 11. Aberdonia and the :sweet" map of oblivion : Donium ; Treenium ; The discovery of an already known element? ; The sweet epilogue leaves a bitter taste in the mouth -- 12. The brief parentheses of four misleading elements : The fleeting existenc of Thalium ; The meteoric appearance and disappearance of Comesium ; The mysterious nature of Ouralium ; The brief history of Idunium -- 13. Two imaginary elements: Sulphurium and Sulfenium : Sulphurium ; The ancient modernity of Sulfenium -- 14. The astronomers "left in the dark" : "Light" as a means of chemical investigation ; A new family of elements from an old family of astronomers ; Neptunium is tempting to a lot of people ; Conclusion -- 15. Bythium and δ [delta]: Two elements that arose (and vanished) via electrolysis -- 16. The ghosts of unnamed elements : 1799: the element of Fernandez ; 1852: the element of Friedrich August Genth ; 1852: the element of Carl Anton Hjalmar Sjögren ; 1861: the elements of brothers August and Friedrich Wilhelm Dupré ; 1862: the element of Charles Fredrick Chandler ; 1864: the elements of William Nylander and Carl Bischoff ; 1869: the element of Oscar Loew ; 1878: the elements of William Balthasar Garland ; 1883: the element of Theodor Eduard Wilm ; 1897: the elements of Gethen G. Boucher and F. Ruddock ; 1904: the Radium foil of George Frederick Kunz ; 1908: the element of Clare de Brereton Evans ; 1913: the element of H.C. Holtz -- PART III: 1869-1913: From the periodic table to Moseley's law: Rips and tears in Mendeleev's net -- Prologue to Part III -- 1. The forerunners of Celtium and Hafnium: Ostranium, Norium, Jargoniam, Nigrium, Euxenium, Asium, and Oceanium -- 2. The discoveries of the rare earths approach their end: Philippium, Element X, Decipium ; Mosandrium, Rogerium, and Columbium : Philippium and Element X ; Mosandrium ; Decipium and the complexity of Didymium ; Rogerium and Columbium ; Conclusion -- 3. Lavoesium and Davyum: The rise and fall of two metals with illustrious names : The discovery of Lavoesium ; A residue of work on Platinum: Davyum ; Lavoesium falls into oblivion ; Davyum's long agaony ; Conclusion -- 4. The complex events surrounding two "Scandinavian" metals: Norwegium and Wasium : The announcement of the discovery of Norwegium ; Norwegium ; A second claimant ; The "launching" of Wasium ; The "shipwreck" of Wasium ; The epilogue f Norwegium -- 5. Verbium: An element from the centre of the Earth -- 6. The curious case of the triple discovery of Actinium : The first announcement of the discovery of Actinium ; Confessions of a violinist ; Did the search for Neoactinium really delay the discovery of Francium ; A cold shower at the end of a career -- 7. The improbable elements of a country gentleman -- 8. A bridge between the protochemistry of the Pharaohs and the Arab world: Masrium -- 9. The demon hidden in the rare earths : Provincial America suits the great physicist just fine ; The son of a Protestant pastor discovers a demon ; The tragic conclusion -- 10. Dim lights and dark shadows around "Lucium" : Preview of the discovery ; The discovery of the first "patented" element ; The interventions of Crookes, Fresenius, and Shapleigh ; Who was manipulating Lucium's strings from behind the scences? -- 11. In the beginning there was Didymium...and then chaos among the rare earths : Didymium: an awkward lodger in the f-family ; The splitting of Didymium: Praeseodidymium and Neodidymium ; A "colorful" war: Glaucodidymium OR Glaucodymium ; Claude-Henri Gorceix and Bohuslav Brauner intervene in the chaos -- 12. Sir William Ramsay: The most "noble" of chemists : The first discoveries ; A wroing track ; Anomalous Argon: the element that would not fit ; A pause in research ; Radioactivity and the discovery of Niton ; A harvest of laurels at the conclusion of his career ; Postscript: Krypton II -- 13. Confederate and Union stars in the Periodic Table : Introduction ; Carolinium (and Berzelium) ; Conclusion -- 14. Two elements from the depths of provincial Americana -- 15. The early successes of the young Urbain : Bauxium ; From Monium to Victorium and in pursuit of Ionium and Incognitum ; The Element E or X ; The meta elements ; The elements of Paul Emile (François) Lecoq de Boisbaudran and of Eugène-Anatole Demarçay ; The Terbium-I, Terbium-II, and Terbium-III of Welsbach -- 16. The setting of the element of the "Rising Sun" -- 17. The times have changed: from Canadium to Quebecium : Who is Pierre Demers? -- PART IV: 1914-1939: From nuclear classification to the first accelerators: Chemists' paradise lost... (and physicists' paradise regained) -- Prologue to Part IV -- 1. From the eclipse of Aldebaranium and Cassiopeium to the priority conflict between Celtium and Hafnium : A collective history: the rare earths ; The lights of Paris hide the stars ; Celtium ; Neo-Celtium ; Celtium doesn't have a leg to stand on -- 2. From the presumed inert elements to those lost in the Dead Sea : The atomic theory of James Moir and the Subelements X and Zoïkon ; The harmonization of the elements and the inert elements ; From England to Prague on the trail of element number 75 ; On the banks of the Dead Sea: the first investogations for the identification of element 87 ; Alkalinium ; Alkalinium's epilogue -- 3. A success "transmuted" into failure : Brevium ; Lisonium and Lisottonium ; Radio-Brevium and the missed discovery of nuclear fission ; Brevium's last gasp -- 4. From Pleochroic Haloes to the birth of the Earth : The origins of the Irish physicist ; Radioactivity makes dating of the Earth possible ; Hibernium: an elusive element -- 5. If anyone has a sheep, Wolfram will eat it : The neighbors of Molybdenum and Tungsten -- 6. When it comes to new discoveries, the more you err, you end up erring more -- 7. The radioactive element of the hot springs -- 8. Moseleyum: The twofold attempt to honor a hero -- 9. The inorganic evolution of element 61: Florentium, Illinium, Cyclonium and finally Promethium : Florentium, the metal of the Florentines ; The Americans discover Illinium ; Integrity comes with a price tag ; Florentium ends up in court ; Cyclonium ; The retraction of the discovery of Florentium ; Conclusion ; Epilogue -- 10. Masurium: An X-Ray mystery : The discovery of Rhenium and Masurium ; No more mention of Masurium ; Panormium and Trinacrium ; The ignored and underrated "Chemikerin" and her fission hypothesis ; Declining years: sympathy for Nazism -- 11. The twilight of the naturally occurring elements: Moldavium, Sequanium, and Dor ; Eka-Caesium: from Russia to Moldovia, through Virginia ; A digression on X-Ray wavelength: Precision, Unitis, and conversion factors ; Eka-Rhenium: Cum Caesar in Galliam Venit, Alterius Factionis Principes Erant Haedul Alterius Sequani... ; Alabamine and Virginium ; Eka-Iodine assumes the fanciful names of Dor ; Conclusion -- 12. A cocktail of chemistry and espionage: Helvetium, Anglo-Helvetium, and a pair of Indian elements : Rajendralal De and his twin elements: Gourium and Dakin ; Walter Minder and Helvetium ; Alice Leigh-Smith and Anglo-Helvetium ; C.W. Martin and the "elusive" parentheses of Leptine ; Acadmic conflicts with Hulubei, Paneth, and Karlik ; Conclusion -- 13. Is failure a severe master? : Eline ; Verium -- PART V: 939-present: beyond uranium, to the stars -- Prologue to Part V -- 1. The obsession of physicists with the frontier: The case of Ausonium and Hesperium, Littorium and Mussolinium -- 2. Finis Materiae ; The island of nuclear stability ; Unfortunate episodes in the attribution of the names of the elements between 101 and 109 ; From atoms to the stars -- 3. The search for primordial superheavy elements: Between scientific rigor and atomic fantasy -- 4. Names, names, and names again: From A to Zunzenium : The elements from Neptunium to Mendelevium seen from both sides of the Iron Curtain ; The step longer than its leg: Nobelium ; Chaos surrounds Lawrencium, Rutherfordium, Dubnium, and Seaborgium -- 5. Do we have to live with fantasy? Hawkingium and Zunzenium -- 6. Naming the last five arrivals in the great "family of the Transuranium elements" -- PART VI: No place for them in the Periodic Table: Bizarre elements -- 1. Inorganic evolution: From proto-elements to extinct elements : A step backward: prime matter, Andronia, and Thelyke ; Pantogen ; Prityle ; Other theories of chemical evolution ; The asteroid elements ; The painful finale -- 2. Dazzling traces of false suns : The mirage of the source of stellar energy ; The curious appearance of Kosmium and Neokosmium -- 3. From the nonexistent elements of Mendeleev to the puzzle of the existence of the Ether : Coronium and its aftermath ; The Geo coronium hypothesis ; Etherium: elementary gas or subatomic particle? -- 4. Anodium and Cathodium -- 5. The exotic Damarium -- 6. Subtle is the air: The case of Asterium -- 7. Clairvoyance as a means of investigating some "occult elements" : A clairvoyant investigates the structure of new and old atoms and their position in the Periodic Table ; The last years of the three clairvoyants -- 8. William Harkins's Element Zero: Neutronium : A place in the Periodic Table for the element without a nuclear charge ; From the nuclear "alphabet" to the hypothesis of Neutronium ; William Draper Harkins: a versatile and obstinate chemist -- PART VII: Modern alchemy: the dream to transmute the elements has always been with us -- Prologue to Part VII: Alchemy then and now -- 1. Misadventures in radiochemistry : Radiochemistry: a child of both physics and chemistry ; Willy Marckwald makes his mark: the Polonium controversy ; William Ramsay "out of his element" ; Tellurium X -- 2. Some like it "cold" -- 3. Is cold fusion hot again? -- Epilogue -- Postscript -- Appendix: Chronological finder's guide for the lost elements. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458408003321 |
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Fontani Marco <1969->
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| New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The lost elements [[electronic resource] ] : the Periodic Table's shadow side / / Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna
| The lost elements [[electronic resource] ] : the Periodic Table's shadow side / / Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna |
| Autore | Fontani Marco <1969-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (585 pages) ; : illustrations |
| Disciplina |
546.8
546/.8 |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Chemical elements
Chemical elements - History Periodic law - History Chemistry - Nomenclature - History Chemistry Elements químics Química - Nomenclatura - Història Taula periòdica (Química) |
| ISBN |
9780199383368
0199383367 9780199383344 0-19-756296-5 0-19-938335-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Introduction -- Why collect into one volume the discoveries of elements that have been shown to be erroneous or have been forgotten? -- How "an element" became a "chemical element" -- Is there any order to the discoveries of the elements? -- The development of the Periodic Table -- PART I: Before 1789: early errors and early elements -- Prologue to Part I -- 1. The beginning of a long series of scientific blunders : Terra Nobilis ; Siderum and Hydrosiderum ; Synneium or Australium ; The element that breathes ; The birth of homeopathy -- 2. The elements hidden by alternative names : Metallum Problematicum or Tellurium ; Ochroite or Cerium ; Ceresium or Palladium ; Erythronium, Panchromium, or Vanadium --
PART II: 1789-1869: from Lavoisier to Mendeleev: The first errors at the dawn of the concept of the chemical element -- Prologue to Part II -- 1. Analytical methodology from Lavoisier to Mendeleev ; Blowpipe analysis ; Qualitative and quantitative analysis ; Electrolysis ; Emission spectroscopy -- 2. The elements of the Kingdom of Naples : Ruprecht and Tondi: two metallurgists without metals ; Playing bingo with five elements ; The extraction procedure of the new metals ; Right or wrong, was Tondi the victim of a sworn enemy? ; The elements that replaced those of Tondi ; Possible present-day interpretations ; Revolution offers a second career possibility -- 3. Austrium: One element, two elements, three elements, and finally, zero elements : The first fleeting attempt to name an element Austrium ; Austrium: a posthumous element ; The "Austrian element" of a Czech chemist ; A third "split" for Bohuslav Brauner -- 4. The return of the Olympians: Silene, Aridium, Saturnum, Pelopium, Dianium, Neptunium, and Plutonium ; Silene ; Aridium ; Saturnum ; Pelopium ; Dianium ; Neptunium ; Plutonium -- 5. the unfortunate affair of a student of Kant: A career soldier, but a chemist by passion : Niccolanum ; The road from oblivion -- 6. André-Marie Ampère burst onto the chemistry scene : "Photore" -- 7. Cadmium: "Bone of contention" among chemical elements : A related discovery increases the confusion: Vestium -- 8. A fireproof family of chemists : Chemistry as the common denominator ; The most improbable of the chemical elements -- 9. A bridge of false hopes between divinity and false elements : Crodonium ; Wodanium ; False elements exchanged for another false element ; Ptene ; Donarium -- 10. Gahnium, Polonium, and Pluranium : Gahnium ; Polinium an Pluranium -- 11. Aberdonia and the :sweet" map of oblivion : Donium ; Treenium ; The discovery of an already known element? ; The sweet epilogue leaves a bitter taste in the mouth -- 12. The brief parentheses of four misleading elements : The fleeting existenc of Thalium ; The meteoric appearance and disappearance of Comesium ; The mysterious nature of Ouralium ; The brief history of Idunium -- 13. Two imaginary elements: Sulphurium and Sulfenium : Sulphurium ; The ancient modernity of Sulfenium -- 14. The astronomers "left in the dark" : "Light" as a means of chemical investigation ; A new family of elements from an old family of astronomers ; Neptunium is tempting to a lot of people ; Conclusion -- 15. Bythium and δ [delta]: Two elements that arose (and vanished) via electrolysis -- 16. The ghosts of unnamed elements : 1799: the element of Fernandez ; 1852: the element of Friedrich August Genth ; 1852: the element of Carl Anton Hjalmar Sjögren ; 1861: the elements of brothers August and Friedrich Wilhelm Dupré ; 1862: the element of Charles Fredrick Chandler ; 1864: the elements of William Nylander and Carl Bischoff ; 1869: the element of Oscar Loew ; 1878: the elements of William Balthasar Garland ; 1883: the element of Theodor Eduard Wilm ; 1897: the elements of Gethen G. Boucher and F. Ruddock ; 1904: the Radium foil of George Frederick Kunz ; 1908: the element of Clare de Brereton Evans ; 1913: the element of H.C. Holtz -- PART III: 1869-1913: From the periodic table to Moseley's law: Rips and tears in Mendeleev's net -- Prologue to Part III -- 1. The forerunners of Celtium and Hafnium: Ostranium, Norium, Jargoniam, Nigrium, Euxenium, Asium, and Oceanium -- 2. The discoveries of the rare earths approach their end: Philippium, Element X, Decipium ; Mosandrium, Rogerium, and Columbium : Philippium and Element X ; Mosandrium ; Decipium and the complexity of Didymium ; Rogerium and Columbium ; Conclusion -- 3. Lavoesium and Davyum: The rise and fall of two metals with illustrious names : The discovery of Lavoesium ; A residue of work on Platinum: Davyum ; Lavoesium falls into oblivion ; Davyum's long agaony ; Conclusion -- 4. The complex events surrounding two "Scandinavian" metals: Norwegium and Wasium : The announcement of the discovery of Norwegium ; Norwegium ; A second claimant ; The "launching" of Wasium ; The "shipwreck" of Wasium ; The epilogue f Norwegium -- 5. Verbium: An element from the centre of the Earth -- 6. The curious case of the triple discovery of Actinium : The first announcement of the discovery of Actinium ; Confessions of a violinist ; Did the search for Neoactinium really delay the discovery of Francium ; A cold shower at the end of a career -- 7. The improbable elements of a country gentleman -- 8. A bridge between the protochemistry of the Pharaohs and the Arab world: Masrium -- 9. The demon hidden in the rare earths : Provincial America suits the great physicist just fine ; The son of a Protestant pastor discovers a demon ; The tragic conclusion -- 10. Dim lights and dark shadows around "Lucium" : Preview of the discovery ; The discovery of the first "patented" element ; The interventions of Crookes, Fresenius, and Shapleigh ; Who was manipulating Lucium's strings from behind the scences? -- 11. In the beginning there was Didymium...and then chaos among the rare earths : Didymium: an awkward lodger in the f-family ; The splitting of Didymium: Praeseodidymium and Neodidymium ; A "colorful" war: Glaucodidymium OR Glaucodymium ; Claude-Henri Gorceix and Bohuslav Brauner intervene in the chaos -- 12. Sir William Ramsay: The most "noble" of chemists : The first discoveries ; A wroing track ; Anomalous Argon: the element that would not fit ; A pause in research ; Radioactivity and the discovery of Niton ; A harvest of laurels at the conclusion of his career ; Postscript: Krypton II -- 13. Confederate and Union stars in the Periodic Table : Introduction ; Carolinium (and Berzelium) ; Conclusion -- 14. Two elements from the depths of provincial Americana -- 15. The early successes of the young Urbain : Bauxium ; From Monium to Victorium and in pursuit of Ionium and Incognitum ; The Element E or X ; The meta elements ; The elements of Paul Emile (François) Lecoq de Boisbaudran and of Eugène-Anatole Demarçay ; The Terbium-I, Terbium-II, and Terbium-III of Welsbach -- 16. The setting of the element of the "Rising Sun" -- 17. The times have changed: from Canadium to Quebecium : Who is Pierre Demers? -- PART IV: 1914-1939: From nuclear classification to the first accelerators: Chemists' paradise lost... (and physicists' paradise regained) -- Prologue to Part IV -- 1. From the eclipse of Aldebaranium and Cassiopeium to the priority conflict between Celtium and Hafnium : A collective history: the rare earths ; The lights of Paris hide the stars ; Celtium ; Neo-Celtium ; Celtium doesn't have a leg to stand on -- 2. From the presumed inert elements to those lost in the Dead Sea : The atomic theory of James Moir and the Subelements X and Zoïkon ; The harmonization of the elements and the inert elements ; From England to Prague on the trail of element number 75 ; On the banks of the Dead Sea: the first investogations for the identification of element 87 ; Alkalinium ; Alkalinium's epilogue -- 3. A success "transmuted" into failure : Brevium ; Lisonium and Lisottonium ; Radio-Brevium and the missed discovery of nuclear fission ; Brevium's last gasp -- 4. From Pleochroic Haloes to the birth of the Earth : The origins of the Irish physicist ; Radioactivity makes dating of the Earth possible ; Hibernium: an elusive element -- 5. If anyone has a sheep, Wolfram will eat it : The neighbors of Molybdenum and Tungsten -- 6. When it comes to new discoveries, the more you err, you end up erring more -- 7. The radioactive element of the hot springs -- 8. Moseleyum: The twofold attempt to honor a hero -- 9. The inorganic evolution of element 61: Florentium, Illinium, Cyclonium and finally Promethium : Florentium, the metal of the Florentines ; The Americans discover Illinium ; Integrity comes with a price tag ; Florentium ends up in court ; Cyclonium ; The retraction of the discovery of Florentium ; Conclusion ; Epilogue -- 10. Masurium: An X-Ray mystery : The discovery of Rhenium and Masurium ; No more mention of Masurium ; Panormium and Trinacrium ; The ignored and underrated "Chemikerin" and her fission hypothesis ; Declining years: sympathy for Nazism -- 11. The twilight of the naturally occurring elements: Moldavium, Sequanium, and Dor ; Eka-Caesium: from Russia to Moldovia, through Virginia ; A digression on X-Ray wavelength: Precision, Unitis, and conversion factors ; Eka-Rhenium: Cum Caesar in Galliam Venit, Alterius Factionis Principes Erant Haedul Alterius Sequani... ; Alabamine and Virginium ; Eka-Iodine assumes the fanciful names of Dor ; Conclusion -- 12. A cocktail of chemistry and espionage: Helvetium, Anglo-Helvetium, and a pair of Indian elements : Rajendralal De and his twin elements: Gourium and Dakin ; Walter Minder and Helvetium ; Alice Leigh-Smith and Anglo-Helvetium ; C.W. Martin and the "elusive" parentheses of Leptine ; Acadmic conflicts with Hulubei, Paneth, and Karlik ; Conclusion -- 13. Is failure a severe master? : Eline ; Verium -- PART V: 939-present: beyond uranium, to the stars -- Prologue to Part V -- 1. The obsession of physicists with the frontier: The case of Ausonium and Hesperium, Littorium and Mussolinium -- 2. Finis Materiae ; The island of nuclear stability ; Unfortunate episodes in the attribution of the names of the elements between 101 and 109 ; From atoms to the stars -- 3. The search for primordial superheavy elements: Between scientific rigor and atomic fantasy -- 4. Names, names, and names again: From A to Zunzenium : The elements from Neptunium to Mendelevium seen from both sides of the Iron Curtain ; The step longer than its leg: Nobelium ; Chaos surrounds Lawrencium, Rutherfordium, Dubnium, and Seaborgium -- 5. Do we have to live with fantasy? Hawkingium and Zunzenium -- 6. Naming the last five arrivals in the great "family of the Transuranium elements" -- PART VI: No place for them in the Periodic Table: Bizarre elements -- 1. Inorganic evolution: From proto-elements to extinct elements : A step backward: prime matter, Andronia, and Thelyke ; Pantogen ; Prityle ; Other theories of chemical evolution ; The asteroid elements ; The painful finale -- 2. Dazzling traces of false suns : The mirage of the source of stellar energy ; The curious appearance of Kosmium and Neokosmium -- 3. From the nonexistent elements of Mendeleev to the puzzle of the existence of the Ether : Coronium and its aftermath ; The Geo coronium hypothesis ; Etherium: elementary gas or subatomic particle? -- 4. Anodium and Cathodium -- 5. The exotic Damarium -- 6. Subtle is the air: The case of Asterium -- 7. Clairvoyance as a means of investigating some "occult elements" : A clairvoyant investigates the structure of new and old atoms and their position in the Periodic Table ; The last years of the three clairvoyants -- 8. William Harkins's Element Zero: Neutronium : A place in the Periodic Table for the element without a nuclear charge ; From the nuclear "alphabet" to the hypothesis of Neutronium ; William Draper Harkins: a versatile and obstinate chemist -- PART VII: Modern alchemy: the dream to transmute the elements has always been with us -- Prologue to Part VII: Alchemy then and now -- 1. Misadventures in radiochemistry : Radiochemistry: a child of both physics and chemistry ; Willy Marckwald makes his mark: the Polonium controversy ; William Ramsay "out of his element" ; Tellurium X -- 2. Some like it "cold" -- 3. Is cold fusion hot again? -- Epilogue -- Postscript -- Appendix: Chronological finder's guide for the lost elements. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791299303321 |
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Fontani Marco <1969->
|
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| New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
The lost elements [[electronic resource] ] : the Periodic Table's shadow side / / Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna
| The lost elements [[electronic resource] ] : the Periodic Table's shadow side / / Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna |
| Autore | Fontani Marco <1969-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (585 pages) ; : illustrations |
| Disciplina |
546.8
546/.8 |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Chemical elements
Chemical elements - History Periodic law - History Chemistry - Nomenclature - History Chemistry Elements químics Química - Nomenclatura - Història Taula periòdica (Química) |
| ISBN |
9780199383368
0199383367 9780199383344 0-19-756296-5 0-19-938335-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Introduction -- Why collect into one volume the discoveries of elements that have been shown to be erroneous or have been forgotten? -- How "an element" became a "chemical element" -- Is there any order to the discoveries of the elements? -- The development of the Periodic Table -- PART I: Before 1789: early errors and early elements -- Prologue to Part I -- 1. The beginning of a long series of scientific blunders : Terra Nobilis ; Siderum and Hydrosiderum ; Synneium or Australium ; The element that breathes ; The birth of homeopathy -- 2. The elements hidden by alternative names : Metallum Problematicum or Tellurium ; Ochroite or Cerium ; Ceresium or Palladium ; Erythronium, Panchromium, or Vanadium --
PART II: 1789-1869: from Lavoisier to Mendeleev: The first errors at the dawn of the concept of the chemical element -- Prologue to Part II -- 1. Analytical methodology from Lavoisier to Mendeleev ; Blowpipe analysis ; Qualitative and quantitative analysis ; Electrolysis ; Emission spectroscopy -- 2. The elements of the Kingdom of Naples : Ruprecht and Tondi: two metallurgists without metals ; Playing bingo with five elements ; The extraction procedure of the new metals ; Right or wrong, was Tondi the victim of a sworn enemy? ; The elements that replaced those of Tondi ; Possible present-day interpretations ; Revolution offers a second career possibility -- 3. Austrium: One element, two elements, three elements, and finally, zero elements : The first fleeting attempt to name an element Austrium ; Austrium: a posthumous element ; The "Austrian element" of a Czech chemist ; A third "split" for Bohuslav Brauner -- 4. The return of the Olympians: Silene, Aridium, Saturnum, Pelopium, Dianium, Neptunium, and Plutonium ; Silene ; Aridium ; Saturnum ; Pelopium ; Dianium ; Neptunium ; Plutonium -- 5. the unfortunate affair of a student of Kant: A career soldier, but a chemist by passion : Niccolanum ; The road from oblivion -- 6. André-Marie Ampère burst onto the chemistry scene : "Photore" -- 7. Cadmium: "Bone of contention" among chemical elements : A related discovery increases the confusion: Vestium -- 8. A fireproof family of chemists : Chemistry as the common denominator ; The most improbable of the chemical elements -- 9. A bridge of false hopes between divinity and false elements : Crodonium ; Wodanium ; False elements exchanged for another false element ; Ptene ; Donarium -- 10. Gahnium, Polonium, and Pluranium : Gahnium ; Polinium an Pluranium -- 11. Aberdonia and the :sweet" map of oblivion : Donium ; Treenium ; The discovery of an already known element? ; The sweet epilogue leaves a bitter taste in the mouth -- 12. The brief parentheses of four misleading elements : The fleeting existenc of Thalium ; The meteoric appearance and disappearance of Comesium ; The mysterious nature of Ouralium ; The brief history of Idunium -- 13. Two imaginary elements: Sulphurium and Sulfenium : Sulphurium ; The ancient modernity of Sulfenium -- 14. The astronomers "left in the dark" : "Light" as a means of chemical investigation ; A new family of elements from an old family of astronomers ; Neptunium is tempting to a lot of people ; Conclusion -- 15. Bythium and δ [delta]: Two elements that arose (and vanished) via electrolysis -- 16. The ghosts of unnamed elements : 1799: the element of Fernandez ; 1852: the element of Friedrich August Genth ; 1852: the element of Carl Anton Hjalmar Sjögren ; 1861: the elements of brothers August and Friedrich Wilhelm Dupré ; 1862: the element of Charles Fredrick Chandler ; 1864: the elements of William Nylander and Carl Bischoff ; 1869: the element of Oscar Loew ; 1878: the elements of William Balthasar Garland ; 1883: the element of Theodor Eduard Wilm ; 1897: the elements of Gethen G. Boucher and F. Ruddock ; 1904: the Radium foil of George Frederick Kunz ; 1908: the element of Clare de Brereton Evans ; 1913: the element of H.C. Holtz -- PART III: 1869-1913: From the periodic table to Moseley's law: Rips and tears in Mendeleev's net -- Prologue to Part III -- 1. The forerunners of Celtium and Hafnium: Ostranium, Norium, Jargoniam, Nigrium, Euxenium, Asium, and Oceanium -- 2. The discoveries of the rare earths approach their end: Philippium, Element X, Decipium ; Mosandrium, Rogerium, and Columbium : Philippium and Element X ; Mosandrium ; Decipium and the complexity of Didymium ; Rogerium and Columbium ; Conclusion -- 3. Lavoesium and Davyum: The rise and fall of two metals with illustrious names : The discovery of Lavoesium ; A residue of work on Platinum: Davyum ; Lavoesium falls into oblivion ; Davyum's long agaony ; Conclusion -- 4. The complex events surrounding two "Scandinavian" metals: Norwegium and Wasium : The announcement of the discovery of Norwegium ; Norwegium ; A second claimant ; The "launching" of Wasium ; The "shipwreck" of Wasium ; The epilogue f Norwegium -- 5. Verbium: An element from the centre of the Earth -- 6. The curious case of the triple discovery of Actinium : The first announcement of the discovery of Actinium ; Confessions of a violinist ; Did the search for Neoactinium really delay the discovery of Francium ; A cold shower at the end of a career -- 7. The improbable elements of a country gentleman -- 8. A bridge between the protochemistry of the Pharaohs and the Arab world: Masrium -- 9. The demon hidden in the rare earths : Provincial America suits the great physicist just fine ; The son of a Protestant pastor discovers a demon ; The tragic conclusion -- 10. Dim lights and dark shadows around "Lucium" : Preview of the discovery ; The discovery of the first "patented" element ; The interventions of Crookes, Fresenius, and Shapleigh ; Who was manipulating Lucium's strings from behind the scences? -- 11. In the beginning there was Didymium...and then chaos among the rare earths : Didymium: an awkward lodger in the f-family ; The splitting of Didymium: Praeseodidymium and Neodidymium ; A "colorful" war: Glaucodidymium OR Glaucodymium ; Claude-Henri Gorceix and Bohuslav Brauner intervene in the chaos -- 12. Sir William Ramsay: The most "noble" of chemists : The first discoveries ; A wroing track ; Anomalous Argon: the element that would not fit ; A pause in research ; Radioactivity and the discovery of Niton ; A harvest of laurels at the conclusion of his career ; Postscript: Krypton II -- 13. Confederate and Union stars in the Periodic Table : Introduction ; Carolinium (and Berzelium) ; Conclusion -- 14. Two elements from the depths of provincial Americana -- 15. The early successes of the young Urbain : Bauxium ; From Monium to Victorium and in pursuit of Ionium and Incognitum ; The Element E or X ; The meta elements ; The elements of Paul Emile (François) Lecoq de Boisbaudran and of Eugène-Anatole Demarçay ; The Terbium-I, Terbium-II, and Terbium-III of Welsbach -- 16. The setting of the element of the "Rising Sun" -- 17. The times have changed: from Canadium to Quebecium : Who is Pierre Demers? -- PART IV: 1914-1939: From nuclear classification to the first accelerators: Chemists' paradise lost... (and physicists' paradise regained) -- Prologue to Part IV -- 1. From the eclipse of Aldebaranium and Cassiopeium to the priority conflict between Celtium and Hafnium : A collective history: the rare earths ; The lights of Paris hide the stars ; Celtium ; Neo-Celtium ; Celtium doesn't have a leg to stand on -- 2. From the presumed inert elements to those lost in the Dead Sea : The atomic theory of James Moir and the Subelements X and Zoïkon ; The harmonization of the elements and the inert elements ; From England to Prague on the trail of element number 75 ; On the banks of the Dead Sea: the first investogations for the identification of element 87 ; Alkalinium ; Alkalinium's epilogue -- 3. A success "transmuted" into failure : Brevium ; Lisonium and Lisottonium ; Radio-Brevium and the missed discovery of nuclear fission ; Brevium's last gasp -- 4. From Pleochroic Haloes to the birth of the Earth : The origins of the Irish physicist ; Radioactivity makes dating of the Earth possible ; Hibernium: an elusive element -- 5. If anyone has a sheep, Wolfram will eat it : The neighbors of Molybdenum and Tungsten -- 6. When it comes to new discoveries, the more you err, you end up erring more -- 7. The radioactive element of the hot springs -- 8. Moseleyum: The twofold attempt to honor a hero -- 9. The inorganic evolution of element 61: Florentium, Illinium, Cyclonium and finally Promethium : Florentium, the metal of the Florentines ; The Americans discover Illinium ; Integrity comes with a price tag ; Florentium ends up in court ; Cyclonium ; The retraction of the discovery of Florentium ; Conclusion ; Epilogue -- 10. Masurium: An X-Ray mystery : The discovery of Rhenium and Masurium ; No more mention of Masurium ; Panormium and Trinacrium ; The ignored and underrated "Chemikerin" and her fission hypothesis ; Declining years: sympathy for Nazism -- 11. The twilight of the naturally occurring elements: Moldavium, Sequanium, and Dor ; Eka-Caesium: from Russia to Moldovia, through Virginia ; A digression on X-Ray wavelength: Precision, Unitis, and conversion factors ; Eka-Rhenium: Cum Caesar in Galliam Venit, Alterius Factionis Principes Erant Haedul Alterius Sequani... ; Alabamine and Virginium ; Eka-Iodine assumes the fanciful names of Dor ; Conclusion -- 12. A cocktail of chemistry and espionage: Helvetium, Anglo-Helvetium, and a pair of Indian elements : Rajendralal De and his twin elements: Gourium and Dakin ; Walter Minder and Helvetium ; Alice Leigh-Smith and Anglo-Helvetium ; C.W. Martin and the "elusive" parentheses of Leptine ; Acadmic conflicts with Hulubei, Paneth, and Karlik ; Conclusion -- 13. Is failure a severe master? : Eline ; Verium -- PART V: 939-present: beyond uranium, to the stars -- Prologue to Part V -- 1. The obsession of physicists with the frontier: The case of Ausonium and Hesperium, Littorium and Mussolinium -- 2. Finis Materiae ; The island of nuclear stability ; Unfortunate episodes in the attribution of the names of the elements between 101 and 109 ; From atoms to the stars -- 3. The search for primordial superheavy elements: Between scientific rigor and atomic fantasy -- 4. Names, names, and names again: From A to Zunzenium : The elements from Neptunium to Mendelevium seen from both sides of the Iron Curtain ; The step longer than its leg: Nobelium ; Chaos surrounds Lawrencium, Rutherfordium, Dubnium, and Seaborgium -- 5. Do we have to live with fantasy? Hawkingium and Zunzenium -- 6. Naming the last five arrivals in the great "family of the Transuranium elements" -- PART VI: No place for them in the Periodic Table: Bizarre elements -- 1. Inorganic evolution: From proto-elements to extinct elements : A step backward: prime matter, Andronia, and Thelyke ; Pantogen ; Prityle ; Other theories of chemical evolution ; The asteroid elements ; The painful finale -- 2. Dazzling traces of false suns : The mirage of the source of stellar energy ; The curious appearance of Kosmium and Neokosmium -- 3. From the nonexistent elements of Mendeleev to the puzzle of the existence of the Ether : Coronium and its aftermath ; The Geo coronium hypothesis ; Etherium: elementary gas or subatomic particle? -- 4. Anodium and Cathodium -- 5. The exotic Damarium -- 6. Subtle is the air: The case of Asterium -- 7. Clairvoyance as a means of investigating some "occult elements" : A clairvoyant investigates the structure of new and old atoms and their position in the Periodic Table ; The last years of the three clairvoyants -- 8. William Harkins's Element Zero: Neutronium : A place in the Periodic Table for the element without a nuclear charge ; From the nuclear "alphabet" to the hypothesis of Neutronium ; William Draper Harkins: a versatile and obstinate chemist -- PART VII: Modern alchemy: the dream to transmute the elements has always been with us -- Prologue to Part VII: Alchemy then and now -- 1. Misadventures in radiochemistry : Radiochemistry: a child of both physics and chemistry ; Willy Marckwald makes his mark: the Polonium controversy ; William Ramsay "out of his element" ; Tellurium X -- 2. Some like it "cold" -- 3. Is cold fusion hot again? -- Epilogue -- Postscript -- Appendix: Chronological finder's guide for the lost elements. |
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