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From Arsenic to Zirconium
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From Arsenic to Zirconium

by Peter Davern
April 2020
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
296 pages
5h 20m
English
No Starch Press
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TANTALUM, Ta

THE PHONE SHRINKER

When Ekeberg named tantalum, he’d Tantalus in mind,

GROUP 5 TRANSITION METAL

In 1802, the Swedish chemist Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767–1813) claimed the discovery of a new element. He named it tantalum (after Tantalus, a king in Greek mythology) because of its reluctance to dissolve in acids. Tantalus was condemned by the gods of Olympus for (among ...

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ISBN: 9781098122669