World of the elements: elements of the world

World of the elements: elements of the world

H.-J. Quadbeck-Seeger

Weinheim: Wiley-VCH 2007 | Pp118 | £11.99 | ISBN 978 3 52 732065 3

Reviewed by Gordon Woods

This is an American translation of a German coffee-table book written by a former president of the German Chemical Society to mark the bicentennial of the publishers and, though strangely not mentioned, Mendeleev's death centenary. The book's landscape layout accommodates a long-form Periodic Table across the inside cover. This puts elements in nine categories, with a matching colour coding used elsewhere in the book.