Description
| Product ID: | 9780316388276 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Disappearing Spoon |
| Subtitle: | And Other True Tales of Rivalry, Adventure, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Young Readers Edition) |
| Authors: | Author: Sam Kean |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage general interest: General knowledge and interesting facts, General knowledge & trivia (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Science and technology, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Mysteries and the unexplained, Educational: Chemistry, History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage), People & places (Children's / Teenage), Science & technology: general interest (Children's / Teenage), Mysteries, the supernatural, monsters & mythological beings (Children’s/Teenage), Educational: Chemistry |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A young readers adaptation of the New York Times bestselling book, The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary human history of the periodic table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie''s reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history? |
| Imprint Name: | Little, Brown Young Readers |
| Publisher Name: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-10-17 |
