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The Disappearing Spoon

by Sam Kean

2011 391 pages eng ★ 4.2 (12 ratings)

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

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