30-Second Elements

The 50 Most Significant Elements, Each Explained in Half a Minute

Ranked #61 in Inorganic Chemistry

30-Second Elements presents you with the foundations of chemical knowledge, distilling the 50 most significant chemical elements into half-a-minute individual entries, using nothing more than two pages, 300 words, and one picture. Along with biographies of the chemists who transformed scientific knowledge, here is your quickest way to know your plutonium from your europium. less

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