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Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc

Paperback • 2012 • English

Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc

By Hugh Aldersey-Williams

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About the book

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...Show more

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9780061824739

Publisher

Ecco Press

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc

Format

Paperback

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