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The last alchemist in Paris : & other curious tales from chemistry /
This is a book about discovery and disaster, exploitation and invention, warfare and science - and the relationship between human beings and the chemical elements that make up our planet. Lars Ohrstrom introduces us to a variety of elements from S to Pb through tales of ordinary and extraordinary pe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, UK :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2013.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The last alchemist in Paris : |b & other curious tales from chemistry / |c Lars Öhrström. |
| 246 | 3 | |a Last alchemist in Paris and other curious tales from chemistry | |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Oxford, UK : |b Oxford University Press, USA, |c 2013. | |
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| 520 | |a This is a book about discovery and disaster, exploitation and invention, warfare and science - and the relationship between human beings and the chemical elements that make up our planet. Lars Ohrstrom introduces us to a variety of elements from S to Pb through tales of ordinary and extraordinary people from around the globe. We meet African dictators controlling vital supplies of uranium; eighteenth-century explorers searching out sources of precious metals; industrial spiesstealing the secrets of steel-making. We find out why the Hindenburg airship was tragically filled with hydrogen, not he. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Print version record. | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-241) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Contents; Preamble: The Periodic Table and the Da Vinci Code; 1 Mr Khama is Coming to Dinner; 2 From Bitterfeld with Love; 3 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Airship; 4 The Spy and the Saracen's Secret; 5 Biopiracy: The Curse of the Nutmeg; 6 Death at Number 29; 7 Blue Blooded Stones and the Prisoner in the Crystal Cage; 8 Diamonds are Forever and Zirconium is for Submarines; 9 Graphite Valley: IT in the Eighteenth-Century Lake District; 10 The Emperor and Miss Smilla; 11 Rendezvous on the High Plateau; 12 The Last Alchemist in Paris. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 13 Pardon My French: Captain Haddock and the Sufferings of the Savoyards14 Two Brilliant Careers; 15 War and Vanity; 16 When State Security was a Stinking Business; 17 Bonaparte's Bursting Buttons: A Thin Story; 18 I Told You So, Said Marcus Vitruvius Pollio; 19 A Shiny Surface and a Tainted Past; 20 The Actress and the Spin Doctor; 21 Of Pea-Soup, Dangers of Coffee in the Morning, and the Test of Mr Marsh; 22 To Take Back the Future; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z. | |
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