The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
enlarge	Author: Sam Kean Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Category: Book List Price: ~~$24.99~~ Buy New: $10.99 as of 2/9/2012 06:57 PST details You Save: $14.00 (56%) In Stock New (44) Used (44) Collectible (1) from $7.37 Seller: The Book and Movie Shack Sales Rank: 26,371 Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published) Media: Hardcover Edition: 1 Pages: 400 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4 Dimensions (in): 6.3 x 1.3 x 9.6 ISBN: 0316051640 EAN: 9780316051644 ASIN: 0316051640 Publication Date: July 12, 2010 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Product Description The Periodic Table is one of man's crowning scientific achievements. But it's also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession. 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. We learn that Marie Curie used to provoke jealousy in colleagues' wives when she'd invite them into closets to see her glow-in-the-dark experiments. And that Lewis and Clark swallowed mercury capsules across the country and their campsites are still detectable by the poison in the ground. Why did Gandhi hate iodine? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium? And why did tellurium lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history? From the Big Bang to the end of time, it's all in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON.

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