Periodic Tales: The Curious Live of the Elements
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| This Impression | 2012 |
| Pages / Font | 445 pages |
| ISBN | 978-0-141-04145-2 |
| Chapters | Prologue Part One: Power El Dorado Going Platinum Noble Metals, Ignobly Announced The Ochreous Stain The Element Traders Among the Carbonari Plutonium Charades Mendeleev's Suitcases The Liquid Mirror Part Two: Fire The Circumnavigation of Sulphur Pee is for Phosphorus 'As under a green sea' 'Humanitarian nonsense' Slow Fire Our Lady of Radium Nightglow of Dystopia Cocktails at the Pale Horse Part Three: Craft To the Cassiterides Dull Lead's Grey Truth Our Perfect Reflection The Worldwide Web Au Zinc Banalization 'Turn'd to barnacles' The Guild of Aerospace Welders The March of the Elements Part Four: Beauty Chromatic Revolution 'Lonely-chrome America' Abbé Suger's Sheet Sapphire Inheritance Powder Rainbows in the Blood Crushing Emeralds The Crimson Light of Neon Jezebel's Eyes Part Five: Earth Swedish Rock Europium Union Auerlicht Gadolin and Samarsky, Everymen of the Elements Ytterby Gruva Epilogue References and Select Bibliography Text Credits Index |
| Notes | Everything in the universe is made of them, including you. Like you, the elements have personalities, attitudes, talents, shortcomings, stories rich with meaning. Here you'll meet iron that rains from the heavens and noble gases that light the way to vice. You'll learn how lead can tell your future while zinc may one day line your coffin. You'll discover what connects the bones in your body with the Whitehouse in Washington, the glow of a streetlamp with the salt on your dinner table. Unlocking their astonishing secrets and colourful pasts, Periodic Tales is a voyage of wonder and discovery, showing that their stories are our stories, and their lives are inextricable from our own. |
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