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Everything in the universe is made of elements. This series looks at the most important chemical elements and explains where they can be found, how they were discovered, their special characteristics and reactions, and their importance in the body and in everyday life. Understanding how the elements behave is the key to understanding chemistry. The Elements provides a fascinating and fact-filled introduction to this important subject.

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Overview

Everything in the universe is made of elements. This series looks at the most important chemical elements and explains where they can be found, how they were discovered, their special characteristics and reactions, and their importance in the body and in everyday life. Understanding how the elements behave is the key to understanding chemistry. The Elements provides a fascinating and fact-filled introduction to this important subject.

Explores the history of the chemical element oxygen and explains its chemistry, how it works in the body, and its importance in our lives.

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Children's Literature - Joyce Rice
Oxygen makes up one-fifth of the air around us. This is a greater percentage of oxygen than found on any other planet in the solar system. We cannot see it, feel it, taste it, or smell it, but we need to breathe it to stay alive. A French scientist, Antoine Lavoisier, who had experimented with the gas, named it oxygen. The Greek origin of the word means, "acid forming." This book is part of "The Elements" series which also includes Carbon, Nitrogen and Iron. Each book describes how the element behaves, its individual characteristics and how it is important to our lives. An index and glossary are part of each volume, and a colorful periodic chart is also included. An excellent series for the upper elementary or middle school science classroom.
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Gr 5-8--These series titles cover where these substances are found, how they were discovered, their characteristics and reactions, and their importance in the human body and the environment. Each volume includes a double-page spread on the element's position in the periodic table. The captioned, full-color drawings, photographs, and diagrams clarify the text while boxed "Did You Know?" items offer interesting extensions to it. Environmental issues considered include pollution from noxious gases and acid rain in Nitrogen, and the thinning of the ozone layer in Oxygen. Informative, accessible science books that will be of interest for both general reading and report writing.--Carolyn Angus, The Claremont Graduate School, CA
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780761408796
  • Publisher: Cavendish, Marshall Corporation
  • Publication date: 9/28/1998
  • Series: The Elements
  • Format: Library Binding
  • Pages: 32
  • Age range: 8 - 10 Years
  • Product dimensions: 8.10 (w) x 10.20 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Table of Contents

What is oxygen? 4
Where oxygen is found 6
How oxygen was discovered 8
Special characteristics 10
How oxygen reacts 11
Combustion 16
Oxygen and life 19
Ozone 21
The oxygen cycle 24
How oxygen is used 26
Periodic table 28
Chemical reactions 30
Glossary 31
Index 32
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