Table of Contents
Meet the Atoms Family 4
The Periodic Table 6
Fizzy and Gassy 8
Hydrogen 10
Lithium 12
Sodium Potassium 14
Beryllium 16
Magnesium 18
Calcium 20
Rubidium | Cesium | Strontium Barium Francium | Radium 22
All About Atoms 24
Tough Metals 26
Titanium 28
Scandium | Vanadium | Chromium | Manganese 30
Iron 32
Cobalt | Nickel | Zinc 34
Copper 36
Yttrium | Zirconium | Niobium | Molybdenum 38
Professor Mendeleev and the Big Table 40
Technetium | Ruthenium | Rhodium | Palladium | Cadmium | Hafnium | Tantalum 42
Silver 44
Tungsten | Rhenium | Osmium | Iridium 46
Platinum 48
Gold 50
Mercury 52
Nearly Metals 54
Aluminum 56
Gallium, Indium 58
Tin, Thallium, Bismuth 60
Lead 62
Star Maker 64
Boran | Silicon 66
Germanium | Antimony | Tellurium | Polonium 68
Arsenic 70
The In-Betweeners 72
Lanthanum | Cerium | Praseodymium | Neodymium 74
Promethium | Samarium | Europium | Gadolinium 76
Terbium | Dysprosium | Holmium | Erbium 78
Thulium | Ytterbium | Lutetium 80
Teaming Up 82
Actinium | Thorium | Protactinium | Neptunium 84
Uranium 86
Plutonium | Curium 88
Super Mixers 90
Carbon 92
Nitrogen 94
Oxygen 96
Recipe for a Body 98
Phosphorus 100
Sulfur | Selenium 102
Fluorine | Chlorine 104
Bromine | Iodine | Astatine 106
Top Gases 108
Helium 110
Neon 112
Argon | Krypton | Xenon | Radon 114
Newbies 116
Americium | Berkelium | Californium | Einsteinium | Fermium | Mendelevium | Nobelium | Lawrencium | Tennessine | Oganesson 118
Rutherfordium | Dubnium | Seaborgium | Bohrium | Hassium | Meitnerium | Darmstadtium | Roentgenium | Copernicium 120
Nihonium | Flerovium | Moscovium | Livermorium 122
Glossary 124
Index 126