The disappearing spoon

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Like big-game hunters, scientists who stalked an undiscovered element courted peril: Marie Curie and Enrico Fermi both died from exposure to dangerous elements in the course of their experiments. But besides them and Dmitri Mendeleev, the deviser of the periodic table, which looms over science classrooms everywhere, few discoverers of the elements occupy the consciousness of even avid science readers. Kean rectifies that in this amble from element 1, hydrogen, to element 112, copernicium. Attaching stories to a human-interest angle, Kean ensures that with his elaboration of the fixation a chemist, physicist, industrialist, or artist had for a particular element comes clarity about why the element behaves as it does. The soft sell about proton numbers and electron shells thus closes the deal for Kean's anecdotes about elements of war, elements of health, and elements of wealth, plus the title's practical joke of a spoon (made from gallium). Whether explaining why Silicon Valley is not Germanium Valley or reveling in naming-rights battles over a new element, Kean holds interest throughout his entertaining debut.

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The Disappearing Spoon

Rating: 5 / 5 | Prijs: € 6.99

Explore the wacky weird and wonderful true stories behind one of the greatest scientific tools in history the periodic table in this young readers edition of the new york times bestseller the disappearing spoon why did gandhi hate iodine how did radium nearly ruin marie curie s reputati Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 06 juni 2011

Aantal pagina's: 391

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Sam Kean

Tweede Auteur: Sam Kean

Hoofduitgeverij: Little, Brown & Company

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 140 mm

Product hoogte: 25 mm

Product lengte: 210 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 139 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 32 mm

Verpakking lengte: 207 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 766 g

EAN: 9780316051637

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