Page 6 - The Periodic Table Book

Foreword 6
Elemental
building blocks 8

DK India Chemical discoveries 10
Senior Editor Bharti Bedi Inside an atom 12
Project Art Editor Amit Verma
Editorial Team Neha Ruth Samuel, Periodic table
Charvi Arora, Deeksha Saikia
Art Editors Mansi Agrawal, Amisha Gupta, Ravi Indiver of elements 14
Assistant Art Editors Neetika Malik Jhingan, Nidhi Rastogi
Jacket Designer Suhita Dharamjit Reactions and uses 16
Jackets Editorial Coordinator Priyanka Sharma
Senior DTP Designer Harish Aggarwal
DTP Designers Sachin Gupta, Syed Md Farhan, Hydrogen 18
Nityanand Kumar, Mohammad Rizwan
Picture Researcher Nishwan Rasool Hydrogen 20
Managing Jackets Editors Saloni Singh, Sreshtha Bhattacharya CONTENTS
Picture Research Manager Taiyaba Khatoon
Pre-production Manager Balwant Singh Alkali Metals 22
Production Manager Pankaj Sharma
Managing Editor Kingshuk Ghoshal Lithium 24
Managing Art Editor Govind Mittal
Sodium 26
DK UK
Salt flats 28
Project Editor Ashwin Khurana Potassium 30
Senior Art Editor Smiljka Surla Rubidium 32
Jacket Editor Claire Gell
Senior Jacket Designer Mark Cavanagh Caesium, Francium 34
Jacket Design Development Manager Sophia MTT
Managing Editor Dr Lisa Gillespie
Managing Art Editor Owen Peyton Jones Alkaline Earth Metals 36
Producers, Pre-production Dragana Puvacic, Catherine Williams
Producer Anna Vallarino Beryllium 38
Publisher Andrew Macintyre
Art Director Karen Self Magnesium 40
Associate Publishing Director Liz Wheeler Calcium 42
Design Director Phil Ormerod
Publishing Director Jonathan Metcalf Fly Geyser 44
Strontium 46
Photographer Ruth Jenkinson
Photography Assistant Julie Stewart Barium 48
Radium 50
Element samples prepared and supplied by RGB Research Ltd
www.periodictable.co.uk

First published in Great Britain in 2017 by
Dorling Kindersley Limited
80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL
Copyright © 2017 Dorling Kindersley Limited
A Penguin Random House Company
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
001–289022–April/2017
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any
means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise,
without the prior written permission of the copyright owner.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is
available from the British Library
ISBN: 978-0-2412-4043-4
Printed in China

A WORLD OF IDEAS:
SEE ALL THERE IS TO KNOW

www.dk.com

004-005_Contents.indd 4 02/12/16 9:25 pm