Courtenay Stanley Goss Phillips

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BIOGRAPHY

Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry, University of Oxford; Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Coauthor of Inorganic Chemistry.

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A color-coded periodic table of the elements displays each element's symbol and atomic number, with categories such as alkali metals, noble gases, halogens, transition metals, and actinoid elements distinguished by different background colors.

alkaline-earth metal

Alkaline-earth metal, any of the six chemical elements that comprise Group 2 (IIa) of the periodic table. The elements are beryllium (Be), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr), barium (Ba), and radium (Ra). Prior to the 19th century, substances that were nonmetallic, insoluble in water, and…

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