EAN: 9781529412741

THE SECRET LIVES OF THE ELEMENTS - KATHRYN HARK...

At the most fundamental level we are all made up of the same component parts  in different
ratios and differently organised  but still the same basic ingredients. Everything we can see 
touch  smell and taste can be expressed in terms of 92 naturally occurring elements and a
handful of man-made ones. That such a staggering variety of things can be created from a
limited number of building blocks is mind blowing and reassuringly simple at the same time. The
elements in the periodic table  like us  are an extended family - some old  some newborn  some
shy and reticent  some exuberant or unreliable. Physical and behavioural traits run through the
periodic table  but each member is still an individual with their own unique way of being. This
book tells the stories of 52 of those elements: tales of discovery  inspiration and revolution
from the everyday to the extraordinary. This book is a keyhole to the curious lives  histories
and personalities of some of the members of the periodic table's family tree.

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