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This book explains what the chemical elements are & their various properties. Historical Information on how each element was discovered in given. The book also includes material on the different isotopes of the elements & their chemical compounds.

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School Library Journal Review

YA-- An excellent introduction to the specific elements. The book provides the following information for each of the first 94 elements: a chart of basic data; a structural diagram; and a discussion of the historical background, chemical properties, laboratory and commercial production, and the compounds and isotopes. Elements 95 through 107 are discussed individually but more briefly. Elements 108 and up are lumped together in a short discussion. Although some knowledge of basic chemistry is required, this is quite readable and will be appreciated by high school students starting their research. Its organization enables readers to make quick, accurate comparisons between elements, while the comprehensive index pulls together research by various chemists.-- Claudia Moore, W.T. Woodson High Sch . , Fairfax, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

Written by a " and advertised as a " With its conversational style, the book is clearly best suited for junior high-school students with focused interest in chemistry or for secondary school libraries as a reference. It consists of 108 chapters, one for each established element, and a final section introducing the superheavy elements. Chapters are organized in order of atomic number, each with, in a few pages, a brief history of an element (taken from M. E. Weeks and H.J. Leicester's Discovery of the Elements, 7th ed., 1968), a summary of its physical properties, and a fuller account of its production and chemical properties. The book has a large number of tables, interesting anecdotal comments, and a helpful index. Element unit cell geometries appearing without explanation at the heads of chapters must be construed as merely decorative. Written, according to Heiserman, to answer a need for a brief, less technical, and more comprehensible presentation, this small volume has succeeded. F. V. Scalzi Hiram College