Periodic tales : a cultural history of the elements, from arsenic to zinc / Hugh Aldersey-Williams.
Periodic tales : a cultural history of the elements, from arsenic to zinc / Hugh Aldersey-Williams.
Periodic tales : a cultural history of the elements, from arsenic to zinc / Hugh Aldersey-Williams.
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Publisher
New York : Ecco, 2011.
Date
2011.
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T0389615
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English
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Physical content
xvii, 428 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Power. El Dorado ; Going platinum ; Noble metals, ignobly announced ; The ochreous stain ; The element traders ; Among the Carbonari ; Plutonium charades ; Mendeleev's suitcases ; The liquid mirror -- Fire. The circumnavigation of the Sulphur ; Pee is for phosphorus ; 'As under a green sea' ; 'Human...
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Publisher
New York : Ecco, 2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2011.
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Summary
"In the spirit of A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING, an energetic and wide-ranging book of discovery and discoverers, of exploitation and celebration, and of superstition and science, all in search of the ways the chemical elements are woven into our culture, history, and language"-- Provided by publisher.
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Periodic tales : a cultural history of the elements, from arsenic to zinc / Hugh Aldersey-Williams.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Transferred from N546.8/3.
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T0389615
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ISBN
0061824720 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9780061824722 (hardback : acid-free paper)
DDC
546.8
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991008975969702626
