The Mystery of the Periodic Table

By Benjamin Wiker, Benjamin D. Wiker, Jeanne Bendick

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Children: Grades 4-6, Chemistry, Living History Library, Juvenile Fiction, Periodic Table, Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction, Science & Technology, Inorganic chemistry, Science, Science history, Periodic law, Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories, Tables, Children's historical non-fiction, History of Chemistry, How-it-was-made, Juvenile Non-Fiction, History, History of science & technology, Chemical elements

Description: This book describes how curious people discovered the elements that are today known collectively as the periodic table. Various chapters describe the methodical science, accidents, and coincidences that led people to acknowledge a variety of invisible, nearly undetectable substances that make up our universe. Appropriate for Middle School and older readers.