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Understanding the Periodic Table

Ron B. Davis Jr.

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Description:The basic elements that make up all matter on Earth have existed from the planet’s earliest days, but it wasn’t until the 18th century that debates emerged about the mapping and classification of such elements. After a series of new and exciting discoveries in the bustling field of chemistry—including nitrogen in 1772, followed by oxygen in 1774—a sense of urgency captured the scientific community. What were scientists to make of these “new” elements? And why did they so often struggle to reach consensus in the discovery of these crucial world-building materials? The story of the periodic table of elements is, in some ways, a map of the history of chemistry and scientific classification of matter.By the late 18th century, the desire to organize and thus better understand our physical world was not a new phenomenon. The ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle, sought to categorize living beings into two groups—“blooded” and “bloodless”. In the 1730s, the Swedish botanist, Carl Linnaeus, developed a naming system that sorted live organisms into a breadth of categories. What ultimately emerged from 18th-century debates about the classification of elements was a decision to establish a similar set of standards: the qualities, properties, and behaviors of elements.Published for the first time in the late 1800s, the simple 28-cell table was the brainchild of acclaimed scientist Dmitri Mendeleev. This marked the beginning of a centuries-long revolution in chemistry. Since the first publishing of the periodic table of elements, teams of scientists have competed for the opportunity to add elements to its rows. During their scientific work, they used the table while they determined how to forge stronger metals, create medicines, produce devastating chemical weapons, and discover a range of other life-altering innovations.While many people have studied and worked with the periodic table in the past—likely in middle or high school—their familiarity is often limited to a surface-level understanding. With a deeper dive, the table becomes a more sophisticated—and, ultimately, more useful—tool. In Understanding the Periodic Table, you will delve into the famous columns and rows that govern the field of chemistry, with Professor Ron B. Davis Jr. of Georgetown University as your expert guide. A science lecturer with over 10 years of teaching experience, Ron is able to distill difficult material into digestible, comprehensive lessons that even novice chemistry students can understand. In 24 detailed lessons that mix lecture-style learning with hands-on experiments and lab demonstrations, you will get the chance to complete your understanding of the periodic table and its 118 elements.The Periodic Table: A Bird’s-Eye ViewThe modern table contains clues that can help you deduce the abundance, origins, distribution, and behaviors of 118 unique materials. You’ll find that the elements are grouped not only by their number of protons, but also by their potential reactivity; that valence electrons are key to both the location and identity of elements; and that the history of elements is forever etched into—and can thus be drawn out from—this simple but powerful chart.A nuanced understanding of one of the most iconic images in modern science equates to a better understanding of the materials and chemical processes that forged our physical world. This comes with practical applications and benefits as well. Better medicines, flying devices, machinery, lights, headphones, automobiles, and even better diets emerge when we are able to discern between elements while harnessing their unique properties.In Understanding the Periodic Table, you will acquire a holistic understanding of this crucial tool. You will uncover its long, complex, and sometimes fraught history, and explore its classification standards from atomic weight to number of protons to behavior of electrons in the valence shell. You will also discover what sort of data it captures, both by design and by accident. Then, learn about the elements as you take an introductory tour of its groups and subgroups like metal, metalloid, nonmetal, noble gas, halogen, and more. By the end of this course, you will emerge with a more sophisticated view of the table as an instrument of chemistry, map of the history of science, and distillation of our physical world, all at the same time.From Arsenic to Zinc: The ElementsIn Understanding the Periodic Table, you will explore the periodic table’s 118 elements in great detail, from its noble gasses to its transition metals, and much more. As you move from group to group, Ron will shine a light on each element, including aspects such as:Discovery: How and where an element was first obtained can reveal a great deal about its place on the periodic table and vice versa. Does it exist naturally within the Earth, like iron or copper? Is it a highly reactive element that needs to be isolated in order to reveal its ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Understanding the Periodic Table. To get started finding Understanding the Periodic Table, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 168

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: The Teaching Company

Release: 2021

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Description: The basic elements that make up all matter on Earth have existed from the planet’s earliest days, but it wasn’t until the 18th century that debates emerged about the mapping and classification of such elements. After a series of new and exciting discoveries in the bustling field of chemistry—including nitrogen in 1772, followed by oxygen in 1774—a sense of urgency captured the scientific community. What were scientists to make of these “new” elements? And why did they so often struggle to reach consensus in the discovery of these crucial world-building materials? The story of the periodic table of elements is, in some ways, a map of the history of chemistry and scientific classification of matter.By the late 18th century, the desire to organize and thus better understand our physical world was not a new phenomenon. The ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle, sought to categorize living beings into two groups—“blooded” and “bloodless”. In the 1730s, the Swedish botanist, Carl Linnaeus, developed a naming system that sorted live organisms into a breadth of categories. What ultimately emerged from 18th-century debates about the classification of elements was a decision to establish a similar set of standards: the qualities, properties, and behaviors of elements.Published for the first time in the late 1800s, the simple 28-cell table was the brainchild of acclaimed scientist Dmitri Mendeleev. This marked the beginning of a centuries-long revolution in chemistry. Since the first publishing of the periodic table of elements, teams of scientists have competed for the opportunity to add elements to its rows. During their scientific work, they used the table while they determined how to forge stronger metals, create medicines, produce devastating chemical weapons, and discover a range of other life-altering innovations.While many people have studied and worked with the periodic table in the past—likely in middle or high school—their familiarity is often limited to a surface-level understanding. With a deeper dive, the table becomes a more sophisticated—and, ultimately, more useful—tool. In Understanding the Periodic Table, you will delve into the famous columns and rows that govern the field of chemistry, with Professor Ron B. Davis Jr. of Georgetown University as your expert guide. A science lecturer with over 10 years of teaching experience, Ron is able to distill difficult material into digestible, comprehensive lessons that even novice chemistry students can understand. In 24 detailed lessons that mix lecture-style learning with hands-on experiments and lab demonstrations, you will get the chance to complete your understanding of the periodic table and its 118 elements.The Periodic Table: A Bird’s-Eye ViewThe modern table contains clues that can help you deduce the abundance, origins, distribution, and behaviors of 118 unique materials. You’ll find that the elements are grouped not only by their number of protons, but also by their potential reactivity; that valence electrons are key to both the location and identity of elements; and that the history of elements is forever etched into—and can thus be drawn out from—this simple but powerful chart.A nuanced understanding of one of the most iconic images in modern science equates to a better understanding of the materials and chemical processes that forged our physical world. This comes with practical applications and benefits as well. Better medicines, flying devices, machinery, lights, headphones, automobiles, and even better diets emerge when we are able to discern between elements while harnessing their unique properties.In Understanding the Periodic Table, you will acquire a holistic understanding of this crucial tool. You will uncover its long, complex, and sometimes fraught history, and explore its classification standards from atomic weight to number of protons to behavior of electrons in the valence shell. You will also discover what sort of data it captures, both by design and by accident. Then, learn about the elements as you take an introductory tour of its groups and subgroups like metal, metalloid, nonmetal, noble gas, halogen, and more. By the end of this course, you will emerge with a more sophisticated view of the table as an instrument of chemistry, map of the history of science, and distillation of our physical world, all at the same time.From Arsenic to Zinc: The ElementsIn Understanding the Periodic Table, you will explore the periodic table’s 118 elements in great detail, from its noble gasses to its transition metals, and much more. As you move from group to group, Ron will shine a light on each element, including aspects such as:Discovery: How and where an element was first obtained can reveal a great deal about its place on the periodic table and vice versa. Does it exist naturally within the Earth, like iron or copper? Is it a highly reactive element that needs to be isolated in order to reveal its ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Understanding the Periodic Table. To get started finding Understanding the Periodic Table, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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