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An entertaining and accessible book about chemistry and the periodic table. Follows carbon, neon, silicon, gold and every single element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, conflict, medicine and the lives of the sometimes mad scientists who discovered them.
Synopsis
Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? This title includes tales that follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold and every single element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, conflict, the arts, medicine and the lives of the mad scientists who discovered them.
