The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

I must admit I am not much interested in chemistry When teachers talk about electrons, protons and atomic nuclei I usually open Walkman (Type I tape, antique now!) Is not interesting because it seems not at all what about real life If I had teachers like Sam Kean, but to be different.
Years, too quick and now I dig this documentary 'written by some computer memory' of the periodic table of elements. History have so many good things like scandal, lies, deception, mad, explosive (!!!) and a lot of what is left Kean described the periodic table. However, in the form read like novels detailed anecdotal To liven up Mercury Drug use by the Lewis Clark and health of their ครับ and you can follow path of their (um minimum bathrooms Getting them to. their trip), where scientists have found unusually high number of mercury in soil poet Robert Lowell? lithium is not destroyed his work by making them conscious? Who knows the game, and fraud and by scientists intent on winning note Nobel!
 
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Not get around this book that makes you think. It's not easy, and assumes that you have basic knowledge of science Some areas but not for my head teacher Kean is a great voice wise men assuming that livens up every area of deep