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Lädt ... The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (2011. Auflage)von Sam Kean (Autor)
Werk-InformationenDie Ordnung der Dinge: Im Reich der Elemente von Sam Kean
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Very dense, though interesting. I would need to own a copy and very slowly dip into it every now and then Whew! What a ride! Took me 2 years to listen to the whole shebang, but time very well spent indeed. A history of everything from the viewpoint of the Periodic Table. Science, politics, love, murder mysteries, medicine, time travel, cooking, you name it. A few moments of terminal quantum physics confusion here and there are worth the journey. And you come away with years worth of interesting trivia! Remember your favorite chemistry teacher? The one who always anthropormorphized chemical compounds and added drama and flavor to their lectures? This book is a lot like that. 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. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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