A Tale of Seven Elements - Plus Another 40 or So Others

In this updated and expanded edition of A Tale of Seven Elements, Eric Scerri presents the intriguing stories of these elements--protactinium, hafnium, rhenium, technetium, francium, astatine, and promethium. It follows their discoveries through the two world wars, starting with protactinium in 1917 and ending with promethium in 1945. Scerri detail