Book
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by Sam Kean
- Published
- 2010
- Genre
- Science/Math
- Pages
- 394
- Words
- 94928
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7247854-the-disappearing-spoon?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_132
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 10.0
- Lexile
- 1300L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 17–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 12 onwards · ages 17–20
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The periodic table is one of our crowning scientific achievements, but it's also a treasure trove of passion, adventure, betrayal and obsession. The fascinating tales in The Disappearing Spoon follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold and every single element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, conflict, the arts, medicine and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780316051644
- ISBN-10
- 0316051640
Tags
ElementsHistoryScienceScience-Chemistry