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Quick and easy data about all of the known 118 elements. If you’d like to know a bit about how the elements were discovered, who discovered them, when and where then here is a book which just gives you the facts. And it you’d like to know why they came to be arranged in the form of the periodic table then here it is. And all written in a way that avoids using words that only chemists understand.
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“you cannot kill yourself by taking a large dose of sodium chloride (it will only make you vomit) or by injecting a solution of it. On the other hand, if you injected a solution of potassium chloride it will kill you within minutes by upsetting the rhythm of your heart.”
― Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life
― Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life
“This minimum, the so-called critical mass, turned out to be a surprisingly small 4 kg, about the size of an apple.”
― Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life
― Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life
“Coca-Cola is just a concoction of chemicals; garlic wards off heart disease and cancer; an aspirin a day keeps the doctor away. None of these statements is true, but they contain a germ of truth.”
― Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life
― Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life
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