Jackson, Tom
Summary: Profiles every element on the periodic table and describes their properties, when they were discovered, and how they are used in household materials.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 546 JACSummary: All matter in the observable universe-from a single blade of grass to a planet in a faraway galaxy-is made up of atoms, molecules, and compounds. This program introduces these minuscule building blocks in five sections: The Nucleus (protons and neutrons, energy shells, binding energy, fission and fusion); The Electrons (quantum numbers, spdf orbitals); The Elements (periodic table, valence...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Dingle, Adrian
Summary: "Enter the world of elements--whether rare, radioactive, or only recently discovered. From explosive antimony to precious gold, explore all the 118 unique building blocks of our universe and the many miraculous ways we use them."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK/Penguin Random House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 546 DINSummary: Filled with real-life demonstrations that support instructive written examples, this program reinforces the basic principles of solving equations for chemical reactions. A brief historical overview describes Marie and Antoine Lavoisier's establishment of the law of conservation of mass, as well as the theoretical contributions of John Dalton. The importance of balancing equations is emphasized,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This in-depth, graphics-driven program introduces students to the world of synthetic and naturally occurring polymers. The video sheds light on a number of monomers and the processes of addition polymerization and condensation polymerization which produce a desired polymer. Properties of thermosetting and thermoplastic polymers are also investigated; likewise, the relationship between the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: An elephant and a racing car don't have much in common-except for the remarkable fact that they're made of similar fundamental building blocks. This program takes a simulated subatomic look at a glass of water to better understand the nature of matter, a minuscule world of molecules, atoms, and elementary particles. The behavior of matter under the effects of gravity, electromagnetism, and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Rusick, Jessica
Summary: This title provides an overview of elements and the periodic table. Text includes a simple overview of elements and examines compounds, categories of elements, periods, groups, atomic numbers, properties, isotopes, and allotropes. Information is explained using real-world examples and supported with graphics and photos. This book concludes with two simple, kid-friendly experiments.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J540 RUSSummary: This program scrutinizes the concept of phase transitions-from naturally occurring changes in state to those created in laboratories-in five sections: Solids, Liquids, and Gases (properties of molecules in different states; hydrogen bonds, dipole-dipole forces, dispersion forces; effects of temperature, pressure, and volume on atomic and molecular movement; Ideal Gas Law); Evaporation and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Couples a comprehensive overview of the periodic table with in-depth lessons on each of its 118 elements, that combine instructions with experiments and animated lab demonstrations. The first half of the course explores the history and fundamentals of the periodic table, the second moves from the top to bottom row to explore the discoveries, subatomic structures, behaviors, and everyday uses of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 546.8 UNDMeyer, Cassie
Summary: "Experience chemistry like never before! The characters in this series will whisk you away on a colorful journey in science. Do you get a bad reaction to chemistry? Never fear! Accelerate your learning with the...Building Blocks of Chemistry."--Cover back.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 546 MEYFarndon, John
Summary: "The elements of the periodic table come alive in the first book in a stellar nonfiction comic series illustrated by Shiho Pate!From oxygen to hydrogen, carbon to plutonium,Animated Science: Periodic Tablemakes chemistry come alive! In this book you'll meet the building blocks of you, the world, and the universe and see how they come together to make everything you see, do, and use every...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 546 FARKean, Sam
Summary: "A young readers adaptation of the bestselling book The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary human history of the periodic table."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 546 KEABarfield, Mike
Summary: Did you know that without the "lead" in your pencil, there would be no life on Earth? Or that the deadly ingredient used to make the most dangerous weapon in history can also be found in your bottle water? Just about everything in the universe is made up of only 92 elements. And from aluminum to zinc, many of these atomic ingredients can be found in your very own home. Join the great scientific...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Laurence King Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 546 BARDingle, Adrian
Summary: Explores the periodic table, by showing how they can be combined to create an entire universe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 546 DINSummary: "Kids will learn how to think about the world in new ways with these challenges and stories centered around science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Advance math skills ; Discover the basic elements ; Learn basic physics ; Sharpen your reflexes."--
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: The elements are what we - and everything around us - are made of. But how many elements have you seen in their pure, raw, uncombined form? This book presents photographic representations of the 118 elements in the period table, along with facts, figures and stories about each one.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 546 GRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 546 GRAGray, Theodore W.
Summary: With Reactions bestselling author Theodore Gray continues the journey through our molecular and chemical world that began with the tour de force The Elements and continued with Molecules. In The Elements, Gray gave us a never-before-seen, mesmerizing photographic view of the 118 elements in the periodic table. In Molecules, with the same phenomenal photographic acumen, plus beautifully rendered...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Hachette Book Group 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 530 GRAMullins, Matt.
Summary: An introduction to the periodic table, covering its organization, the information it contains, how it is used, and how elements combine to form other elements.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 546.8 MULSummary: This Science Screen Report uses experiments and everyday phenomena to explore the properties of matter and how physical forces cause state changes at the boiling, melting, freezing, and dew point. The program also demonstrates how different states of matter can be combined in suspensions and solutions and how such mixtures can be separated into their components. Applied chemistry is spotlighted...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: At the beginning of the 19th century, 55 elements had been discovered, and although scientists had no idea how many more they might yet find, they already had a suspicion that there was some sort of unifying pattern behind them all. This program charts the quest for order among the chemical elements by examining the contributions of Dmitri Mendeleev, creator of the Periodic Table of Elements,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Using clever animation and real-world examples, this video gives viewers a solid grounding in the principles of mixtures, how they can form, and how they can be separated. Starting with everyday tools and materials-including a campfire, sugar, water, and magnets-the program illustrates simple and complex experiments that demonstrate a wide range of mixture separation techniques. Viewers will...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Everything is made up of atoms, but what are atoms made of? This program summarizes modern atomic theory and the chemistry of atoms. First, modern atomic theory is explained with emphasis on some of the major breakthroughs by Ernest Rutherford, who experimented with alpha particles; Niels Bohr, who observed the valency of elements; and Dmitri Mendeleev, who designed the periodic table of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Dingle, Adrian
Summary: The elements in the periodic table are the ingredients that make up our world. Explore elements such as carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, and learn why they are essential to our survival. See how precious gold protects astronauts in space, and why the metal mercury can be both a solid and a liquid. Find out about man-made elements, which the smartest chemists are busy figuring out how to use. Learn...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 546 DINSummary: From charcoal to diamonds, carbon is essential to a multitude of products-and to life itself. This program illustrates the mechanics of the carbon cycle, explores some of the special properties of the ubiquitous element, and looks at the importance of carbon in the chemical makeup of all living things. Describing the best-known carbon allotropes, the program examines the characteristics and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009