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The Disappearing Spoon

by Sam Kean

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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. --from publisher description

MiscellaneaChemical elementsChemistsChemistryHistoryChemistry, historyPeriodic lawTablesnyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2010-08-08New York Times bestsellerChemistry, juvenile literatureScience, juvenile literature