Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements
Like the alphabet, the calendar, or the zodiac, the periodic table of the chemical elements has a permanent place in our imagination. But aside from the handful of common ones (iron, carbon, copper, gold), the elements themselves remain wrapped in mystery. We do not know what most of them look...
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Like the alphabet, the calendar, or the zodiac, the periodic table of the chemical elements has a permanent place in our imagination. But aside from the handful of common ones (iron, carbon, copper, gold), the elements themselves remain wrapped in mystery. We do not know what most of them look like, how they exist in nature, how they got their names, or of what use they ar
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780141041452 (0141041455)
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 428
Edition language: English
Getting better and better after the first rather predicable emphasis on gold.
bookshelves: nonfiction, published-2011, sciences, winter-20102011, flufferoonies, essays Read from January 29 to February 04, 2011 ** spoiler alert ** More whimsical than weighty; philosophic rather than physic. It would sit well as a staple introduction to those universalism courses they offe...
I'll be honest enough to admit that I don't read non-fiction as often as I'd like but every now and again something catches my eye. This had been on my wishlist so when it came up on Amazon Vine I leapt at the chance to read it.I'm very glad I did. The last book that caught my interest in this way w...
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