The Disappearing Spoon
About this book
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. --from publisher description
Subjects
- chemical elements
- chemistry
- chemistry, history
- chemistry, juvenile literature
- chemists
- ciencia
- classification périodique des éléments
- elementos químicos
- éléments chimiques
- history
- miscellanea
- miscellanées
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2010-08-08
- obras de divulgación
- periodic law
- periodic table
- periodic table of the elements
- popular science books
- science
- science, juvenile literature
- tabla periódica (química)
- tables