A cultural history of the elements, from arsenic to zinc kindle edition by alderseywilliams, hugh. Hugh aldersey williams born 1959 is an author and journalist from the united kingdom. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Reading it in one stretch, the stories get rather repetitive and the writing style tiring. An interesting book, probably better read a chapter or two at a time as opposed to my usual allatonce technique. Periodic tales by hugh alderseywilliams softcover weaving together stories about the elements, this book draws as much on history and other disciplines as on chemistry to paint a portrait of the cultural impact the elements have had on everything around us members edition. At about the same period, i discovered a quiz on the internet in which you had to name all the elements 112 of them within 10 minutes, and was shocked at how few i knew including none of the newer ones, many of which i had never even heard of. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading periodic tales. Il chimico, giornalista e scrittore alderseywilliams racconta come. The content of this book are easy to be understood. Along the way, youll find that their stories are our stories, and their lives are inextricable from our own. A meandering personal scientific historic journey though the elements.
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