Transuranium Elements by Glenn Seaborg, Used (33 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 16pp extract, bibliography, chart, 1 plate, salvaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year 1959. Neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Paperback. Condition: UsedVeryGood. Softcover; light fading and shelf wear to exterior; in very good condition with clean text, firm binding.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover ex-library with typical marks shows moderate cover wear. No jacket. Text is unmarked. Ships FAST!

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Charts (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. xx, 328 p. illus., diagrs., tables. Publisher's binding sturdy, shelf marks at the bottom edges of front and rear boards, spine sunned; unsigned notation in pencil ("MASTER COPY" followed by a list of four misprints) at the head of the front free endpaper, corrections made in pencil on relevant pages, else contents unmarked. 790 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st EDITION. This copy is NEAR FINE; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked except for pencil price on fep; binding is tight, but pages show age and edges show some wear. The jacket is VG: intact , including perfect color and design, but small tears along edges and corners, signs of age. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. On foreign sales, because of the heavy weight of this book, we have to charge extra for shipping: however, we will only charge the difference between our regular shipping rate and the extra charge that the U.S.Post Office asks to ship the book. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Charts (illustrator). hardback in very good condition.

Cloth. Condition: Good in Good dust jacket. This is a hard cover book with white cloth covered boards. Gilded titling on spine. Dust jacket is unclipped. Includes b/w photos, charts, diagrams, etc. Name of former owner on FEP. Professional book dealer since 1975. All orders are processed promptly and packaged with the utmost care. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Red Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good DJ. Graphs, Tables, Drawings (illustrator). First Edition. 328 Pp.Red Cloth, Spine Gilt. First Printing. A Near Fine Book, No Marks, Hinges Tight, Virtually No Wear, Immaculate, Gilt Brilliant. Dj Price Clipped, Light Wear, A Few Closed Edge Tears With Associated Wrinkling But Only A Couple Of Tiny Chips. Very Faint Dampstaining Visible Mostly On Inside Of Dust Jacket, Also A Few Smal Internal Clear Tape Reinforcements.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. Hardcover; Addison-Wesley; Atoms for Peace; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; margin marking and underlining on one page, otherwise text is clean; good condition with firm binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 328 pages, gilt titles on grey cloth. A very good, generally clean, neat hard cover over all with minor shelf wear, binding solid, cream white but some light foxing at the endpapers and fore-edges. In a good, edge worn dust jacket with chipping at the margins.

Condition: Good. Prentice-Hall Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1963 ex-library copy.

Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No DJ. Previous owner's small ink stamp on ffep. Binding is not tight. Some discoloration to pages. No markings to text and/or images. Some wear along the edges, tips, and along the spine. Some rubbing wear to cloth covers. Tips are slightly bent.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condition: Good. EX-LIBRARY copy with usual markings. Dust jacket in protective mylar. Text unmarked. Good solid copy. Ships Next Business Day.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Charts (illustrator). First Edition. First edition with complete number line, hardcover, has a subtle lean to the binding, light bumps with a touch of peeling to the spine ends and cover corners, rubbing with minor staining to the covers, a small scuff to the head of the front, and mild smudging to the edges of the text block. Overall, a solid, unmarked, Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Charts (illustrator). 1st Edition. hardback book in near fine condition.

Hard Bound. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Original white cloth. From the library of Chemistry professor Herbert M. Clark, who worked on the Manhattan Project, with his name in ink. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Seaborg was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951 and received the Atomic Energy Commission's Enrico Fermi Award in 1959. Seaborg won his share of the Nobel Prize for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of ten transuranium elements.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Based on the Silliman Memorial Lectures at Yale in 1957. Author Nobel Prize winner. Ex-libris. 328 pages in good condition. Periodic numbers added to list of elements in last few pages by previous owner. Previous owner's name on pdep and stamp on title page. Portion of DJ inside text pasted to ffep. Red cloth cover with gilt titles in good condition. Corners and edges very slightly worn. No DJ. VG+. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover; light fading and shelf wear to exterior; stain to top page edge; fading to pages; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Charts (illustrator). Very Good. Dust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition [stated]. First Edition Stated. A Bright, Clean Copy, Gilt Brilliant. No Marks Except Stamps Of The Nsl Library On Endpaper And Title Pages, And A Small Library Handwritten Notation On Front Endpaper. Loss Of About Two Dozen Letters On Pp Xvi/Xvii Where The Two Pages Were Stuck Together And Separated, With Lost Paper Still Adhering To Opposite Page, But Text Meaning Still Clear. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xx, [2], 328, [4] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Tables. Bibliography. General Index. Name Index. Discoloration and ink note at top corner of fep. Glenn Theodore Seaborg (April 19, 1912 - February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His work led to his development of the actinide concept and the arrangement of the actinide series in the periodic table of the elements. Seaborg spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He advised ten US Presidents - from Harry S. Truman to Bill Clinton - on nuclear policy and was Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971. He contributed to the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Seaborg was the principal or co-discoverer of ten elements: plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and element 106, which, while he was still living, was named seaborgium in his honor. He also discovered more than 100 atomic isotopes. Seaborg developed the extraction process used to isolate the plutonium for the second atomic bomb. This book is in part the result of the Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures. The transuranium elements are the chemical elements with atomic numbers greater than 92. All of these elements are unstable and decay radioactively into other elements. All of the elements with higher atomic numbers have been first discovered in the laboratory, with neptunium and plutonium later also discovered in nature. Trace amounts of neptunium and plutonium form in some uranium-rich rock, and small amounts are produced during atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons. Transuranic elements can be artificially generated synthetic elements, via nuclear reactors or particle accelerators. The half lives of these elements show a general trend of decreasing as atomic numbers increase. Heavy transuranic elements are difficult and expensive to produce, and their prices increase rapidly with atomic number.

Illustr (incl color), folding chart, 9.5 x 6, red cloth, 328 pp with index + pp, covers worn and stained, extremities bumped and fraying, hinges loose, photo of author from dust jacket pasted in at end, pp toned at edges, former owner's ink name on ffep. INSCRIBED "To Dick -- one of my outstanding students" and SIGNED BY AUTHOR, GLENN T. SEABORG, who adds the date "Mar. 23, 1960.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xx, [2], 328, [4] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Fold-out Tables. Bibliography. General Index. Name Index. Discoloration and ink note at top corner of fep. Some DJ wear. Some black marks to fep and bottom edge Glenn Theodore Seaborg (April 19, 1912 - February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His work led to his development of the actinide concept and the arrangement of the actinide series in the periodic table of the elements. Seaborg spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He advised ten US Presidents - from Harry S. Truman to Bill Clinton - on nuclear policy and was Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971. He contributed to the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Seaborg was the principal or co-discoverer of ten elements: plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and element 106, which, while he was still living, was named seaborgium in his honor. Seaborg developed the extraction process used to isolate the plutonium for the second atomic bomb. This book is in part the result of the Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures. The transuranium elements are the chemical elements with atomic numbers greater than 92. All of these elements are unstable and decay radioactively into other elements. All of the elements with higher atomic numbers have been first discovered in the laboratory, with neptunium and plutonium later also discovered in nature. Trace amounts of neptunium and plutonium form in some uranium-rich rock, and small amounts are produced during atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons. Transuranic elements can be artificially generated synthetic elements, via nuclear reactors or particle accelerators. The half lives of these elements show a general trend of decreasing as atomic numbers increase. Heavy transuranic elements are difficult and expensive to produce, and their prices increase rapidly with atomic number.

Condition: Very Good. INSCRIBED! Englewood Cliffs: New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1963. 8vo Paperback. 120pp. B/W illustrations and figures. Inscribed by author in black pen on epigraph. Very Good book. Some edgewear to covers. In polypropylene bag. (transurane, transuranium elements ) Inquire if you need further information.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Glenn Seaborg. "The Transuranium Elements", in Science, 25 October 1946, pp 379-404, the Seaborg article occupying pp 379-386, plus 22pp of ads. Original wrappers. A solid, Very Good copy. The only real defect is that there is a shadow of a very old vertical fold that runs through the issue. __+__ While writing a post for the bookstore section of this blog on Seaborg's "Transuranium Elements" article that appeared in Science in October 1946 I was struck by the home-made quality of one of the illustrations for the periodic table. Mainly I was curious to see the representation of the actinides (which at this point included up to Curium (synthesized in 1944) and was still three years away from Berkelium (synthesized in 1949). And since I have been on a small mission to define terms I looked up the discovery of actinium, which turns out to be a little complicated, but was perhaps first discovered by André-Louis Debierne in 1899(1). This distraction led immediately to another--a photo of a speck of plutonium (hydroxide) in a capillary tube (even at 40x it appears as a tiny white cloudy splotch). Since plutonium after a certain date was not discussed for obvious security reasons in the Physical Review and other journals (a date that I keep forgetting but I believe was in late 1940 when the nuclear/explosive aspect of Pu-239 was discovered), I wondered about when the first photo of plutonium appeared, anywhere.and if this was it. But no, it turned out not to be, though it was close. The "first" award seems to go to Fritz Goro (1901-1986), the great science photographer for LIFE magazine, who made an image for July 27, 1946, some three months before the Seaborg article appeared and just over a year after the Nagasaki bomb. In any event, I reprint the Science photo (left). __+__ Notes: (1.) André Louis Debierne (1899). "Sur un nouvelle matière radio-active". Comptes rendus 129: 593595.