Download Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, From Arsenic to Zinc AudioBook Free
Just like the alphabet, the calendar, or the zodiac, the regular table of the substance elements has a everlasting place inside our imagination. But apart from the handful of common ones (iron, carbon, copper, gold), the elements themselves remain wrapped in puzzle. We do not know what most of them appear to be, how they are present in nature, the way they got their labels, or of what use they are to us. Unlocking their astonishing secrets and bright colored pasts, Periodic Stories is a passionate voyage through mines and musicians and artists' studios, to factories and cathedrals, into the woods also to the sea to discover the true reports of these interesting but mysterious building blocks of the universe.
