『A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis』is a free short e-book of Glen W. Watson available on Project Gutenberg. It has 4,524 words and may take about 30min to read.
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It is well known that the number of elements has grown from four in the days of the Greeks to 103 at present, but the change in methods needed for their discovery is not so well known.
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