Periodic tales : a cultural history of the elements, from arsenic to zinc / Hugh Aldersey-Williams.
Aldersey-Williams, Hugh.
2012
QD467 .A457 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Periodic tales : a cultural history of the elements, from arsenic to zinc / Hugh Aldersey-Williams.
Author
Aldersey-Williams, Hugh.
Edition
1st Ecco pbk. ed.
ISBN
9780061824739 (pbk.)
0061824739 (pbk.)
Publication Details
New York : Ecco, 2012.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 428 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
QD467 .A457 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
546.8
Summary
"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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Power. El Dorado ; Going platinum ; Noble metals, ignobly announced ; The ochreous stain ; The element traders ; Among the Carbonari ; Plutonium charades ; Mendeleev's suitcases ; The liquid mirror
Fire. The circumnavigation of the Sulphur ; Pee is for phosphorus ; 'As under a green sea' ; 'Humanitarian nonsense' ; Slow fire ; Our Lady of Radium ; Nightglow of Dystopia ; Cocktails at the Pale Horse ; The light of the sun
Craft. To the Cassiterides ; Dull lead's grey truth ; Our perfect reflection ; The worldwide web ; Au zinc ; Banalization ; 'Turn'd to barnacles' ; The Guild of aerospace welders ; The march of the elements
Beauty. Chromatic revolution ; 'Lonely-chrome America' ; Abbé Suger's sheet sapphire ; Inheritance powder ; Rainbows in the blood ; Crushing emeralds ; The crimson light of neon ; Jezebel's eyes
Earth. Swedish rock ; Europium Union ; Auerlight ; Gadolin and Samarsky, everymen of the elements ; Ytterby Gruva.

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