The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean

"Disappearing Spoon" by Sam Kean is an attractive novel that explains one of the most important elements of all science - the Periodic Table of the Elements. For the entire novel, Keane suggests that the elements on the desktop do not necessarily look like they look, and how the various elements play a variety of roles in life. Sam Kean was fascinated by the element long before writing this novel in 2010. When Kean was small, I was very interested in the mercury thermometer, so broke the thermometer to see how small mercury balls reacted to each other.

Sam Kean's "The Disappearing Spoon": An interesting explanation of how to create a periodic table, how to discover elements, how scientists crush themselves. It also provides some technical knowledge of the behavior and chemical reaction of many substances. - Lux recommends the reader's Guy Perelmuter.

A year or two ago, I accidentally received a lot of discounts at Sam Kean's wonderful book "The Disappearing Spoon". If you are interested in science - you should - Ken's writing is a pleasure. He is a scientific populist, but his method is to expose scientific findings and people who are evident, and often stories of funny human stories. "Disappearing spoon" is about the development of finding new elements and periodic tables. The title comes from a mischief played by a colleague scientist who uses elemental gallium. Gallium is a solid metal at room temperature but melts at a slightly higher temperature, so it dissolves quickly when it is stirred with a gallium spoon like hot coffee and disappears into liquid.

Please read the following excerpt written by Washington based writer Sam Kean. He has established an interesting relationship between forecasts on some of the elements Mendeleev finds. Keen's work was featured in All Things, which was published in the New York Times magazine and Slate and was discussed on National Public Radio. His book on the big change in chemistry "The Disappearing Spoon" is the national bestseller of the New York Times. Three out of the four elements are metals, except for iron, aluminum, and other elements, in most cases they just closed the periodic table holes before the Second World War. But since around 1950, all metals found a niche. Ideal for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). extremely to produce a very powerful laser. Hey, now it is used as an additive like tungsten for aluminum baseball bat and bicycle rack and helped the Soviet Union produce light helicopters in the 1980s.