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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 Elements.
Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Kean, Sam
Verfasser*innenangabe: Sam Kean
Jahr: 2010
Verlag: Boston [u.a.], Little, Brown Books
Mediengruppe: Buch
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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. We learn that Marie Curie used to provoke jealousy in colleagues' wives when she'd invite them into closets to see her glow-in-the-dark experiments. And that Lewis and Clark swallowed mercury capsules across the country and their campsites are still detectable by the poison in the ground. Why did Gandhi hate iodine? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium? And why did tellurium lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history?

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Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Kean, Sam
Verfasser*innenangabe: Sam Kean
Jahr: 2010
Verlag: Boston [u.a.], Little, Brown Books
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Systematik: Suche nach dieser Systematik FS.E, DR
Interessenkreis: Suche nach diesem Interessenskreis Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 978-0-316-05164-4
2. ISBN: 0-316-05164-0
Beschreibung: 1. Aufl., 391 S.
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Sprache: Englisch
Mediengruppe: Buch