TY - BOOK AU - Barfield,Mike AU - Humphrey,Lauren TI - The element in the room: investigating the atomic ingredients that make up your home SN - 9781786271778 (hbk.) : AV - QD466 .B3 2018 U1 - 546 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Laurence King Publishing KW - Chemical elements KW - Juvenile literature KW - Non-Fiction 9+ KW - ukslc KW - Science, Maths and Technology N1 - Includes index N2 - Did you know that without the 'lead' in your pencil, there would be no life on Earth? Just about everything in the universe is made from only 92 elements - and from aluminium to zinc, many of them are hiding in your very own home! This funny and fascinating guide is bursting with brilliant facts about the atomic ingredients that make up everything around us. Join scientific sleuth Sherlock Ohms as he investigates the elements, and help his enquiries with explosive experiments ER -