![]() ![]() There is also a bibliography, an index and a periodic table. ![]() You don’t have to be scientist to be fascinated by the contents.Īt the end of the book, there is a valuable collection of notes which amplifies sections of the text. ![]() There is something here for everyone: students, teachers, businessmen and -women. The reader will find everything of interest in this book. Breathing an atmosphere of this pure gas killed NASA technicians who were working on the space ship Columbia. In Chapter 11, we learn how dangerous the inert gas nitrogen can be. In Chapter 10, we learn how Oliver Sacks successfully treated patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease with L-dopa. Topics in the chapters range from the attitude of Gandhi toward salt, to the Big Bang Creation of the Universe. The stories are grouped together in chapters with a common theme, e.g., Chapter 9, “Poisoner’s Corridor”, features elements: cadmium, thallium, bismuth, thorium and americium. It is a collection of anecdotes about people and happenings, each tale linked to one element of the periodic table. The Disappearing Spoon is not a book about the detailed chemistry of the chemical elements nor does it describe the development of the periodic system. ![]()
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