Periodic tales: a cultural history of the elements, from arsenic to zinc
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HarperCollins
2011
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| Ausgabe: | 1. U.S. ed. |
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| Beschreibung: | "In the spirit of A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING, an energetic and wide-ranging book of discovery and discoverers, of exploitation and celebration, and of superstition and science, all in search of the ways the chemical elements are woven into our culture, history, and language"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Beschreibung: | XVII, 428 S. Ill. 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780061824722 |
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Autor: Aldersey-Williams, Hugh
Jahr: 2011
Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgements xv
Prologue i
part one: power
El Dorado 13
Going Platinum 29
Noble Metals, Ignobly Announced 37
The Ochreous Stain 43
The Element Traders 55
Among the Carbonari 61
Plutonium Charades 70
Mendeleev s Suitcases 81
The Liquid Mirror 90
part two: fire
The Circumnavigation of the Sulphur 103
Pee is for Phosphorus 112
As under a green sea 128
Humanitarian nonsense 138
Slow Fire 147
viii Contents
Our Lady of Radium 160
Nightglow of Dystopia 172
Cocktails at the Pale Horse 186
The Light of the Sun 190
part three: craft
To the Cassiterides 199
Dull Lead s Grey Truth 212
Our Perfect Reflection 223
The Worldwide Web 236
Au Zinc 246
Banalization 253
Turn d to barnacles 265
The Guild of Aerospace Welders 276
The March of the Elements 283
part four: beauty
Chromatic Revolution 287
Lonely-chrome America 297
Abbe Suger s Sheet Sapphire 305
Inheritance Powder 314
Rainbows in the Blood 321
Crushing Emeralds 326
The Crimson Light of Neon 331
Jezebel s Eyes 342
PART FIVE: EARTH
Swedish Rock 349
Contents ix
Europium Union 359
Auerlicht 365
Gadolin and Samarsky, Everymen of the Elements 373
Ytterby Gruva 378
Epilogue 391
Notes 399
References and Select Bibliography 405
Text Credits 414
Index 4iy
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