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Author Aldersey-Williams, Hugh.

Title Periodic tales : a cultural history of the elements, from arsenic to zinc / by Hugh Aldersey-Williams.

Publication Info. New York : Ecco, 2011.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  546 ALDERSEY-WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  548.8 ALD    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  546 ALDERSEY-WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  546 ALD    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  546 ALDERSEY-WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  546 ALD    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  546 AL    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 428 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary "In the spirit of "A Short History of Nearly Everything", this is an energetic and wide-ranging book of discovery and discoverers, of exploitation and celebration, and of superstition and science, all in search of the ways the chemical elements are woven into our culture, history, and language"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Periodic law -- History.
Chemical elements -- History.
Discoveries in science.
ISBN 9780061824722 (hardback : acid-free paper)
0061824720 (hardback : acid-free paper)
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