The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

✍ Kean, Sam 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Little, Brown and Company 🌐 English ⚖ 473 KB

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

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

✍ Kean, Sam 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Little, Brown and Company 🌐 English ⚖ 883 KB

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

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of the Elements

✍ Kean, Sam 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Little, Brown and Company 🌐 English ⚖ 884 KB

### From Publishers Weekly Science magazine reporter Kean views the periodic table as one of the great achievements of humankind, "an anthropological marvel," full of stories about our connection with the physical world. Funny, even chilling tales are associated with each element, and Kean relates

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of the Elements

✍ Kean, Sam 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Little, Brown and Company 🌐 English ⚖ 474 KB

### From Publishers Weekly Science magazine reporter Kean views the periodic table as one of the great achievements of humankind, "an anthropological marvel," full of stories about our connection with the physical world. Funny, even chilling tales are associated with each element, and Kean relates

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of the Elements

✍ Kean, Sam 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Back Bay Books 🌐 English ⚖ 886 KB

Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters?* The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsessio

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of the Elements

✍ Kean, Sam 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Hachette Digital 🌐 English ⚖ 478 KB

### From Publishers Weekly Science magazine reporter Kean views the periodic table as one of the great achievements of humankind, ''an anthropological marvel,'' full of stories about our connection with the physical world. Funny, even chilling tales are associated with each element, and Kean relate