This encyclopedia is dedicated to the properties of chemical elements, which form the environments of humanity. The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with insight into chemistry and chemical elements as an essential link harmoniously connecting us to the nature and allowing us to create items and materials the world requires. The book provides the information about all chemical elements currently known, the history of their discovery, their properties, methods of their production, as well as possible industrial use of their compounds based on D.I. Mendeleyev’s Periodic system of chemical elements.
The encyclopedia offered to the reader contains extensive educational material which will be interesting for a wide range of readers, mainly for school and university students.