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The disappearing spoon and other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements

Kean, Sam2011
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The infectious tales and astounding details in 'The Disappearing Spoon' follow carbon, neon, silicon and gold as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.
Main title:
The disappearing spoon and other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements / Sam Kean.
Author:
Kean, Sam
Imprint:
London : Doubleday, 2011.
Collation:
vi, 391 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Little, Brown, 2010.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780857520265 (hbk)0857520261 (hbk)
Dewey class:
540.9540
Language:
English
Subject:
Chemistry -- HistoryChemistsChemical elements -- MiscellaneaPopular Science
BRN:
1297370
Bookmark link:
https://dundee.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1297370

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