![]() ![]() Sam Kean, a writer in Washington, DC, US, is a reporter at Science magazine his writing style is light and races along from element to element, with a scattering of interesting asides. The Disappearing Spoon, in a series of anecdotes, interesting facts and stories, describes how each element relates to human history, finance, mythology, conflict, the arts, medicine and the lives of the scientists who discovered them. Not another book about the periodic table? Actually, I enjoyed this one very much, as it is not the usual history from Mendeleev’s first attempt to tabulate the elements to the variety of different physical forms of the table available today, nor is it a description of the physical and chemical properties, uses and applications etc of each element in turn. ![]()
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