Written by Glen W. Watson

A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis

by Glen W. Watson

A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis written by Glen W. Watson.It is well known that the number of elements has grown from four in the days of the Greeks to 103 at present, but the change in methods needed for their discovery is not so well known. Up until 1939, only 88 naturally occurring elements had been discovered...