TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kean,Sam
TI  - The disappearing spoon and other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements
SN  - 9780552777506 (pbk.) :
AV  - QD11 
U1  - 540.9 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London
PB  - Black Swan
KW  - Chemistry
KW  - History
KW  - Chemists
KW  - Chemical elements
KW  - Miscellanea
KW  - Popular Science
KW  - eflch
N1  - Originally published: New York: Little, Brown, 2010; London: Doubleday, 2011; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The infectious tales and astounding details in 'The Disappearing Spoon' follow carbon, neon, silicon and gold as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them
ER  -