Deschutes Public Library

The disappearing spoon, and other true tales of rivalry, adventure, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements [adapted for young readers], Sam Kean ; adapted for young readers by Adrian Dingle and Kelsey Kennedy

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

1210L, Lexile1300L, Lexile

Ages 10+

non fiction

The disappearing spoon

bibliography

1008762929

Sam Kean ; adapted for young readers by Adrian Dingle and Kelsey Kennedy

Accelerated Reader, UG, 9.0, 8, 8, 197245Accelerated Reader, UG, 10.0, 19, 19, 185983.

and other true tales of rivalry, adventure, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements [adapted for young readers]

The periodic table of the elements is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of passion, adventure, obsession, and betrayal. These tales follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold, and all the elements in the table as they play out their parts in human history. The usual suspects are here, like Marie Curie (and her radioactive journey to the discovery of polonium and radium) and William Shockley (who is credited, not exactly justly, with the discovery of the silicon transistor)--but the more obscure characters provide some of the best stories, like Paul Emile Francois Lecoq de Boisbaudran, whose discovery of gallium, a metal with a low melting point, gives this book its title: a spoon made of gallium will melt in a cup of tea--From publisher description

juvenile