Profiles every element on the periodic table and describes their properties, when they were discovered, and how they are used in household materials.-- Source other than Library of Congress.

"DK Smithsonian." Includes index.

Elemental building blocks -- Chemical discoveries -- Inside an atom -- Periodic table of elements -- Reactions and uses -- Hydrogen -- Alkali metals -- Alkaline earth metals -- Transition metals -- Lanthanides -- Actinides -- The Boron group -- The Carbon group -- The Nitrogen group -- The Oxygen group -- The Halogen Group -- Noble gases.