Title: The Disappearing Spoon
Description: 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. --from publisher description
Subjects: Miscellanea, Chemical elements, Chemists, Chemistry, History, Chemistry, history, Periodic law, Tables, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2010-08-08, New York Times bestseller, Chemistry, juvenile literature, Science, juvenile literature, Science, New York Times reviewed, Periodic table of the elements, Ciencia, Obras de divulgación, Popular Science Books, Éléments chimiques, Miscellanées, Classification périodique des éléments, Periodic table, Elementos químicos, Tabla periódica (Química)