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Exploring Chemical Elements and Their Compounds

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This book is the best book on the elements. It covers ever area that I could think of, from historical background, properties, production, and compounds. The book is so in depth and doesn't miss a thing. It is also beneficial because it gives basic information like atomic weight, boiling point, specific gravity, and oxidation state (and many other things). It just has all the information that you could need. Even for obscure elements no one has ever heard of before, it covers a lot of information. This could be used for personal reference and I would even recommend it for school. Reading it will help better understand the roll of the elements and chemistry in our lives.

I have always been a fan of chemistry, especially throughout my years in high school. Now, as I go to college, I plan to take this book with me. Don't let the "12-up" phrase trick you - this book is thorough and interesting.

I received this book about four years ago, and it has been one of the best books I have read about the elements. It covers many things from uses, history, specifics, production, and certain important reactions. This is the book that caused me to become interested in chemistry. The author did a great job with every aspect of it. I can't imagine a better book to use to find out the information.

This book does a great job covering the elements. The layout is good but could be organized a bit better. Actual pictures of the elements would be nice. This would be a great book to translate into a CD-ROM (hint hint! :

Personally, I thought that this was a very well written book. It explained each of the different chemical elements in the author's unique, creative way. I read the entire book, including the preface, the table of contents, and the index. I loved this book, and if you love chemistry as much as I do, you definately should read it! It is a great book for first-time chemistry students. Taylor Breedlove

This is one of the few books i've found that tells you where the symbols for each element comes from. An interesting read, and useful..

The book in general is good, but for chemistry students I would not recommend. It is weak, and has some mistakes.

This book is good for doing an Element Project, I has many Information About Each elements from the Periodic Table. But If I'll be more update it will be better, because The elements are discovering and there are some new elements. Also if this book will has some guildlines in which this book was about, it would be better, Since this book is for 12-up, more guildlines about how to read this book will be very useful to understand information from the book.

The book in general is good, but for chemistry students I would not recommend. It is weak, and has some mistakes.