oxygen group element: References & Edit History
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The biosphere and ecosystems related to sulfur and selenium are discussed in A.B. Roy and P.A. Trudinger, The Biochemistry of Inorganic Compounds of Sulphur (1970); William E. Winner, Harold A. Mooney, and Robert A. Goldstein (eds.), Sulfur Dioxide and Vegetation: Physiology, Ecology, and Policy Issues (1985); and Eric S. Saltzman and William J. Cooper (eds.), Biogenic Sulfur in the Environment (1989). Allotropy and structure are presented in an article by L.B. Gittinger, “Sulphur, 1970,” Engineering and Mining Journal, 172:133–136 (1971); and in the following books: K.W. Bagnall, The Chemistry of Selenium, Tellurium, and Polonium (1966); D.M. Chizhikov and V.P. Shchastlivyi, Selenium and Selenides (1968; originally published in Russian, 1964), and Tellurium and the Tellurides (1970; originally published in Russian, 1966); Ralph A. Zingaro and W. Charles Cooper (eds.), Selenium (1974); W. Charles Cooper, Tellurium (1971); F. Tuinstra, Structural Aspects of the Allotropy of Sulfur and the Other Divalent Elements (1967); Arthur V. Tobolsky and William J. MacKnight, Polymeric Sulfur and Related Polymers (1965); and Beat Meyer (ed.), Elemental Sulfur: Chemistry and Physics (1965). Compilations of physical and numerical data are found in Wendell M. Latimer, The Oxidation States of the Elements and Their Potentials in Aqueous Solutions, 2nd ed. (1952).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: The Chemistry LibreTexts Library - Group 16: The Oxygen Family (The Chalcogens). | Nov 03, 2017 | ||
| Updated for name change of element 116 to livermorium. | Dec 02, 2011 | ||
| Added element 116 as the sixth oxygen group element. | Mar 11, 2011 | ||
| Added new Web site: Royal Society of Chemistry - The elements of Group 16. | Mar 24, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Hyperphysics - The Oxygen Group. | Mar 24, 2009 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Nov 15, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |