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Myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating Second and third grades, and for days on end it would hurt to swallow. I came down with strep throat something like a dozen times in the Time I was left alone with a thermometer under my tongue. This habit led to my fascination with the periodic table the first Whatever-and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway. Read ExcerptĪs a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth-food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, A classic science prank is to mold gallium spoons, serve them with tea, and watch guests recoil as their utensils disappear. Though solid at room temperature, gallium is a moldable metal that melts at 84 degrees Fahrenheit. The Disappearing Spoon masterfully fuses science with the classic lore of invention, investigation, and discovery - from the Big Bang through the end of time.
These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, and in the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.
The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it’s also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie’s reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters? From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table.
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