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Kean's Sixth Chapter Analysis

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In the sixth chapter, Kean starts with Henry Moseley, the man who found a mathematical relationship between the elements atomic number, wavelengths of x-rays, and the number of protons an element has. After Moseley death, scientists began to hunt down the missing elements that Moseley mentioned thus making the periodic table bigger. Kean then moves on to the Manhattan Project in which veterans came up with bombs using cobalt that could extinct mankind.
In the seventh chapter, Kean focuses on the discoveries of several last elements on the periodic table. A conflict occurred in trying to name these elements, that’s when IUPAC stepped in, giving the elements their final names. These discoveries brought curiosity for people at UC Berkeley, significantly
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