The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean

The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean

Kean tells the periodic table's history through the strange, often dramatic human stories behind each element's discovery — scientific rivalries, poisonings, wartime espionage, and the eccentric characters obsessed enough with a single element to devote their lives to isolating it.

Each chapter combines genuine chemistry with narrative storytelling, making the periodic table's structure and logic memorable through anecdote rather than rote memorisation, and Kean's engaging prose has made the book a popular entry point into chemistry for readers who found the subject dry in school.

A bestselling, story-driven tour of the periodic table's hidden human history.

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