The last alchemist in Paris : & other curious tales from chemistry /

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Author / Creator:	Öhrström, Lars.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Chemistry -- History. Discoveries in science -- History. Chemical elements. Chemistry -- Popular works. Chemical elements. Chemistry. Discoveries in science. Electronic books. History. Popular works.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12015402

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Varying Form of Title:	Last alchemist in Paris and other curious tales from chemistry
ISBN:	9780191637056 019163705X 129996673X 9781299966734 9780191637063 0191637068 9780199661091 019966109X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-241) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Öhrström, Lars. Last alchemist in Paris. Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2013 019966109X
Standard no.:	YBP11222846

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