Same Kean - The Disappearing Spoon torrent

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

Sam Kean

Part I, Orientation: Column by Column, Row by Row
1. Geography Is Destiny
2. Near Twins and Black Sheep: The Genealogy of Elements
3. The Galápagos of the Periodic Table

Part II, Making Atoms, Breaking Atoms
4. Where Atoms Come From: “We Are All Star Stuff ”
5. Elements in Times of War
6. Completing the Table . . . with a Bang
7. Extending the Table, Expanding the Cold War

Part III, Periodic Confusion: The Emergence of Complexity
8. From Physics to Biology
9. Poisoner’s Corridor: “Ouch-Ouch”
10. Take Two Elements, Call Me in the Morning
11. How Elements Deceive

Part IV, The Elements of Human Character
12. Political Elements
13. Elements as Money
14. Artistic Elements
15. An Element of Madness

Part V, Element Science Today and Tomorrow
16. Chemistry Way, Way Below Zero
17. Spheres of Splendor: The Science of Bubbles
18. Tools of Ridiculous Precision
19. Above (and Beyond) the Periodic Table