zinc group element: References & Edit History
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A general view of the principles underlying the extraction of zinc, cadmium, and mercury is given in Donald M. Liddell (ed.), Handbook of Nonferrous Metallurgy, 2nd ed., 2 vol. (1945). The toxicity of the three metals is dealt with in Ethel Browning, Toxicity of Industrial Metals, 2nd ed. (1969). A useful summary of the behaviour of mercury is found in Eric N. Simons, Guide to Uncommon Metals (1967). More information on these three metals is provided in C.A. McAuliffe (ed.), The Chemistry of Mercury (1977); Leonard J. Goldwater, Mercury: A History of Quicksilver (1972); D.M. Chizhikov, Cadmium (1966; originally published in Russian, 1962); Marie Farnsworth, Cadmium Chemicals (1980); S.W.K. Morgan, Zinc and Its Alloys and Compounds (1985); Helmut Sigel and Astrid Sigel, Zinc and Its Role in Biology and Nutrition (1983); and Marie Farnsworth, Charles H. Kline, and J.G. Noltes, Zinc Chemicals (1973).
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Former Managing Director, Imperial Smelting Processes Limited, Avonmouth, England.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: h2g2 - Chemistry of the Group 12 Elements. | Apr 25, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: h2g2 - Chemistry of the Group 12 Elements. | Jun 23, 2011 | ||
| Copernicium added to the zinc group of chemical elements. | Mar 11, 2011 | ||
| Removed sections on individual elements | Jan 29, 2009 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Apr 12, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |