{"id":1301,"date":"2009-06-15T09:43:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T13:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2012-04-24T11:52:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:52:41","slug":"bonus-in-the-news-the-periodic-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/bonus-in-the-news-the-periodic-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonus In the News – The Periodic Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week of June 15, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

News Item: <\/strong>The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has officially recognized element 112. This super-heavy element, which was first produced in 1996, is 277 times heaver than hydrogen and has been temporarily named, “ununbium.” It sits to the right of Roentgenium (Rg) and below Mercury (Hg) in the periodic table.<\/p>\n

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The Elements<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy John Emsley. Oxford University Press (3rd ed.), 1998
\nCall Number: QD466 .E48 1998<\/p>\n

The Elements: A Very Short Introduction<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Phillip Ball. Oxford University Press, 2004
\nCall Number: Available online via NetLibrary<\/p>\n

Elements and the Periodic Table: What Things Are Made Of<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Theodore S. Abbgy. Mark Twain Media, 2001
\nCall Number: QD467 .A23 2001x (At Treasure Coast)<\/p>\n

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The Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Philip Ball. Oxford University Press, 2002
\nCall Number: QD466 .B25 2002 (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

Mendeleyev’s Dream: The Quest for the Elements<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Paul Strathern. St. Martins Press, 2001
\nCall Number: QD22 .M43 S87 2001<\/p>\n

Nature’s Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy John Emsley. Oxford University Press, 2001
\nCall Number: QD466 .E52 2001<\/p>\n

The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey Into the Land of the Chemical Elements<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy P.W. Atkins. BasicBooks, 1995
\nCall Number: QD466 .A845 1995<\/p>\n

The Periodic Table<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Primo Levi. Schocken Books, 1984
\nCall Number: PQ4872 .E8 S513 1984<\/p>\n

The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Eric R. Scerri. Oxford University Press, 2007
\nCall Number: QD467 .S345 2007 (Also available via NetLibrary)<\/p>\n

The Periodic Table of Elements<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy R. J. Puddephatt. Oxford, Clarendon press, 1972
\nCall Number: QD467 .P83<\/p>\n

The Power of the Periodic Table<\/em> <\/strong>(VHS)
\nDirected by Bruce Kirk. The Company, 1999
\nCall Number: QD467 .P69 1999<\/p>\n

A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Michael D. Gordin. Basic Books, 2004
\nCall Number: QD22 .M43 G67 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week of June 15, 2009 News Item: The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has officially recognized element 112. This super-heavy element, which was first produced in 1996, is 277 times heaver than hydrogen and has been temporarily named, “ununbium.” It sits to the right of Roentgenium (Rg) and below Mercury (Hg) in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-in-the-library","category-in-the-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5617,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/5617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}