Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements
A Popular Science, Nonfiction, Chemistry book. Each element has a characteristic atomic spectrum, due to the...
Everything is made of them, from the furthest reaches of the universe to this book that you hold in your hands, including you. Like you, the elements have lives: personalities and attitudes, talents and shortcomings, stories rich with meaning. You may think of them as the inscrutable letters of the periodic table but you know them much better than you realise. Welcome to a dazzling tour through history and literature, science and art. Here you'll meet iron that rains from the heavens and...
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- Pages: 398 pages
- ISBN: 9780670918119 / 670918113
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It is through this cultural life rather than through experimental encounter in a laboratory that we really come to know the elements individually, and it is a cause for sadness that most chemistry teaching does so little to acknowledge this rich existence. Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc Each element has a characteristic atomic spectrum, due to the absorption and emission of light associated with the unique energy levels of its orbiting electrons. Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc
If you enjoyed The Disappearing Spoon as much as I did, than this book is a no-brainer must-read.I remember while taking a chemistry class not too long ago that though the nitty gritty details were sometimes daunting, boring, or downright frustrating, it was always the stories about the elements or their discoverers that helped put... I read this because chemistry has always been my weakest subject and I would like to be less of a chem-idiot. This book is interesting and mostly very well written. It does contain a few odd errors, though, but probably none related to actual chemistry (Like I would know!). One of the themes the author includes is the description of... If you like history, science, and elements, this book is awesome. It's the history of the periodic table from a very cultural standpoint. It's not dry and boring like a chemistry textbook, nor does it drone on like a nuclear physics book. Instead, it tells the story of the who and what lead to the discovery of the elements. In fact,...
