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The Photographic Card Deck of The Elements: With Big Beautiful Photographs of All 118 Elements in the Periodic Table [Cards]

Theodore Gray
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Book Description

October 27, 2010
A companion to the bestselling book The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe, this beautiful photographic card deck features all 118 elements in the periodic table. One element per card appears as a full-size image on the front and fascinating information about the element on the back.

The Photographic Card Deck of The Elements is the most detailed, lush, and beautiful set of cards ever produced on the subject of the periodic table.  With 126, 5"X5" cards in all, it includes one card for every one of the 118 elements, plus additional cards that explain the arrangement of the periodic table, present the elements sorted by various properties, and suggest activities and uses for the cards.
 
The front side of each card shows a full-size, photographic image of the element, while the back gives scientific information including atomic weight, density, melting and boiling point, valence, and the percent of the element found in the universe, in the Earth's crust, in oceans, and in humans.  Graphics show melting/boiling points, density, electron configuration, and atomic radius.  A fascinating fact about the element, as well as the date of its discovery, is also included.

The cards are perfect for students but also make an excellent gift for a scientist or anyone who enjoys the beauty and diversity of the natural world.


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About the Author

Theodore Gray is the author of the bestselling The Elements:A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe and Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do At Home But Probably Shouldn't, and of Popular Science magazine's "Gray Matter" column.

Product Details

  • Cards: 126 pages
  • Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers; Crds edition (October 27, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1603761985
  • ISBN-13: 978-1603761987
  • Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 3 x 5.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,063 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I love the pictures and the information is easy to read. Nwwasilewski  |  7 reviewers made a similar statement
Truly for the coffee table, take a look, learn something, pass the book to someone else sort of learning. Michael A. Duvernois  |  6 reviewers made a similar statement
I decided to get him the book from the library and buy him the cards. J. Raven  |  2 reviewers made a similar statement
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65 of 67 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Great but not as thick as I hoped. December 14, 2010
Format:Cards|Amazon Verified Purchase
These cards have a picture of the element(or a picture of something that the element is in)on the front and facts on the back. I was hoping they would be durable enough to use with my 8th grade science students but they are only a little thicker than playing cards and can be bent easily. I also got his book of elements and it's outstanding.

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I ended up just using the book with my students since I was afraid they would bend the cards. The book has many colorful pictures and paragraphs of information for each element.
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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Very nice little set of element cards November 30, 2010
Format:Cards
All of the information is from the associated book (The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe) which is also quite a nice coffee table book. Neither the book nor the cards are references exactly, but, as per the title, photographic explorations. Truly for the coffee table, take a look, learn something, pass the book to someone else sort of learning. It's not at all an in-depth reference book.

So much for what it's not, but what does it have? Nice heavy cardstock paper for the cards, mostly excellent photos, including for some of the elements that I would have had a very hard time figuring out what image to use. The use of some of the rare earths in lighting is perhaps overused in the book, but that's a direct result of the even/flat treatment of the element. Iron and nickel rate no more or less space that Yttrium and Ytterbium.

Best for the kids rather than the chemistry major, but fun regardless.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Good product January 31, 2011
Format:Cards|Amazon Verified Purchase
Good product for highschool chemistry teachers and for students interested in searching information about chemical elements in an easy and ordered way.
Presentation and type of material are good.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars great
these are a lot of fun and came in handy as a study guide they give a modern feel to the study of the elements
Published 15 days ago by K. Reid
5.0 out of 5 stars great deck!
this is a beautiful, colorful set of cards. It makes it much easier to learn about elements when you can see something more relatable then just the atomic structure. Read more
Published 1 month ago by KitKat
5.0 out of 5 stars Build your own Periodic Table
I got all three of Theo Gray's Element publications. I got the cards in order to give a presentation on Mendeleev's development of the periodic law. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Roger Ham
4.0 out of 5 stars Elements
Ordered this for nine year old grandson for Christmas! He is fascinated with the periodic table so these were a great tool for him to learn about all the elements.
Published 3 months ago by Judy E. Baggett
5.0 out of 5 stars Accurate data and great visual representations...
Accurate data and great visual representations, now where is 3-D holographic version of the cards, that includes the orbits.... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Andrew Jones
4.0 out of 5 stars wonderful
my son is learning the elements table
the big pictures help in memorizing them
only down side is that they cannot be used for flash cards because you can see the answer
Published 4 months ago by 2kidmom
5.0 out of 5 stars Great product
Bought these for our 11-year-old son for Christmas (yes, he wanted periodic table stuff for Christmas). These cards are stunning and very well done. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Matt Sullivan
5.0 out of 5 stars this was a hit!
my son loves this set of cards-spread them out on family room floor and studied for hours, then shuffled and did it again.
Published 4 months ago by E. Zobel
4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of information for kids
I bought this for my 7 year old son who was interested in the periodic table. He loves going through each card, looking at the picture, and then understanding when it was... Read more
Published 4 months ago by David Blunt
5.0 out of 5 stars Goes well with the book
The book with the same name matches this "card" set. My daughter is a huge science geek and loved this gift for Christmas
Published 4 months ago by R. J. Gilgunn FBC
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