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Title Periodic tales [electronic resource eBook] : A cultural history of the elements, from arsenic to zinc. Hugh Aldersey-Williams.
PUBLISHER 2011.
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NOTE Electronic reproduction. New York : HarperCollins e-books, 2011. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 6840 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).
Summary In the spirit of A Short History of Nearly Everything comes Periodic Tales. Award-winning science writer Hugh Andersey-Williams offers readers a captivating look at the elements—and the amazing, little-known stories behind their discoveries. Periodic Tales is an energetic and wide-ranging book of innovations and innovators, of superstition and science and the myriad ways the chemical elements are woven into our culture, history, and language. It will delight readers of Genome, Einstein's Dreams, Longitude, and The Age of Wonder.
Other edition Original 9780061824739
ISBN 9780062078810
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