About the book: 1963 / FROM THE COMPILERS This book is not a textbook, and certainly not a chemical encyclopedia. To talk about all the elements of the periodic table, even focusing only on their most characteristic features, would require entire volumes. Therefore, the route of our journey to the Land of the Elements passes through its main “attractions”. The reader will become acquainted with those chemical elements that constitute the main content of inorganic chemistry and are especially widely used in various fields of human activity. Komsomol - the caring and demanding chief of big chemistry - announced the All-Union Campaign for Knowledge. If “Journey to the Land of the Elements” is in some way useful on this journey, then the book has fulfilled its purpose.