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Laddar... The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (utgåvan 2011)av Sam Kean (Författare)
VerksinformationThe Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements av Sam Kean
  
Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.  settingshadow | Aug 19, 2023 |    ) mykl-s | Aug 11, 2023 |  ) RyneAndal | Jul 12, 2023 | =============================================== The author occasionally uses casual modern English. It is unnecessary and distracting. The author states that the association of iodine deficiency with mental retardation made Bertrand Russell realize that mental function depends on the material conditions of the brain. I don't believe it. After all, Heraclitus of Ephesus said, A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking; a blow to the foot has no such effect. This cannot be the result of an immaterial soul., and Russell wrote a great history of philosophy. The author says that "Virtually every hospital in the world uses tracers, and a whole branch of medicine, radiology, deals exclusively in that line." I think he means the field of Nuclear Medicine. (  ) markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 | ) Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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The periodic table of the elements is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of passion, adventure, obsession, and betrayal. These tales follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold, and all the elements in the table as they play out their parts in human history. The usual suspects are here, like Marie Curie (and her radioactive journey to the discovery of polonium and radium) and William Shockley (who is credited, not exactly justly, with the discovery of the silicon transistor)--but the more obscure characters provide some of the best stories, like Paul Emile François Lecoq de Boisbaudran, whose discovery of gallium, a metal with a low melting point, gives this book its title: a spoon made of gallium will melt in a cup of tea.--From publisher description. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Okay, fine, chemistry is a substantial part of my livelihood, so maybe I have more fond chemistry-based memories than then average person. Nonetheless, The Disappearing Spoon should be as enticing to those who never took a science class outside of distribution requirements as well as those of us whose favorite class was organic chemistry.
To be honest, I was pretty nervous about this book; as a biochemist, it makes me a little uncomfortable to admit that there's anything interesting outside of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen (and a touch of phosphorus and sulfur.) But Kean's writing is the definition of compulsively readable.
Drama is brought by the often argumentative, usually eccentric and always genius scientists who founded the principals of modern chemistry. In addition, each chapter is riddled with historical anecdotes staring a particular element or two. But the real richness of the book comes from Kean's ease with the science itself, describing valence shells, chemical bonds, radioactivity, fusion and fission in accurate, accessible and extremely lively ways. (