The disappearing spoon :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
vi, 391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition
1st ed.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010.
Summary
The periodic table of the elements is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of passion, adventure, obsession, and betrayal. These tales follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold, and all the elements in the table as they play out their parts in human history. The usual suspects are here, like Marie Curie (and her radioactive journey to the discovery of polonium and radium) and William Shockley (who is credited, not exactly justly, with the discovery of the silicon transistor)--but the more obscure characters provide some of the best stories, like Paul Emile François Lecoq de Boisbaudran, whose discovery of gallium, a metal with a low melting point, gives this book its title: a spoon made of gallium will melt in a cup of tea.--From publisher description.
Call Number
546 KEA
Publication Date
2010
Language
English
ISBN
9780316051644 9780316051637 9780552777506
The disappearing spoon :
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
11 audio discs (13 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Production / Publication Information
Old Saybrook, CT : Tantor Audio, p2010.
Summary
The periodic table is one of man's crowning scientific achievements. But it's also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession. 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.
Call Number
CD 546 KEA
Publication Date
2010
Language
English
ISBN
9781400119523 9781400149520
The disappearing spoon :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition
Young readers edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Summary
"A young readers adaptation of the bestselling book The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary human history of the periodic table."--
Call Number
TEEN SUMMER READING 2020
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
ISBN
9780316388283 9780316388276
The disappearing spoon. MP3 :
Author
Format:
Audio disc
System details note
System requirements: CD/MP3 player or PC with MP3-capable software.
Physical Description
2 audio discs (13.00 hr.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Retail edition
Production / Publication Information
[Old Saybrook, Ct.] : Tantor Media, Inc., 2010.
Summary
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.
Call Number
MP-3-CD/ 546 KEA
Publication Date
2010
Language
English
ISBN
9781400169528
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