On Rare And Scattered Metals Tales About Metals | S. Venetsky

In this post we will see a book titled On Rare and Scattered Metals by S. Venetsky, which is a sort of sequel to the book titled Tales About Metals.

This
book tells about some rare metals (including those called trace
elements) and can be regarded as a second part of S. I. Venetsky’s Tales
About Metals (It was published in English by Mir Publishers, Moscow, in
1981).
The author follows the same principle as in his previous
work: rather than giving the reader any exhaustive information about
every chemical element he describes, to tell him some interesting facts,
curious incidents and tales associated with rare metals, to tell about
the thorny path of any major scientific discovery and about some paths
yet to be trodden in the amazing world of metals.

This book was translated from the Russian by by N. G. Kittell, and was first published by Mir in 1983.

Contents
About This Book 6
The Triumpth of a Great Law (Gallium) 8
An Evil Genie (Rubidium) 17
The Secret of the Bengal Priests (Strontium) 24
A Find in an Old Quarry (Yttrium) 31
Dinosaur Resurrected (Technetium) 39
An English Scientist’s Joke (Palladium) 47
Named After Cadmus of Phoenicia (Cadmium) 55
Associated with the Land of Wonders (Indium) 64
Once in Schtalhausen Monastery (Antimony) 70
Two Blue Strangers (Cesium) 77
The Good Luck of a Shoemaker from Bologna (Barium) 85
Only a Trace (Hafnium) 93
The Secret of Old Waste Dumps (Rhenium) 100
An Insult to a Noble Metal (Osmium) 107
All the Colours of the Rainbow (Iridium) 114
Budding Twig (Thallium) 121
A Space Mission (Bismuth) 127
The Rarest of the Rare (Francium) 136
Eternal Rays (Radium) 143