TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aldersey-Williams,Hugh
TI  - Periodic tales: a cultural history of the elements, from arsenic to zinc 
SN  - 9780061824722 (hardback : acidfree paper)
AV  - QD467 .A457 2011
U1  - 546/.8 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Ecco
KW  - Periodic law
KW  - History
KW  - Chemical elements
KW  - Discoveries in science
N2  - "In the spirit of A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING, an energetic and wide-ranging book of discovery and discoverers, of exploitation and celebration, and of superstition and science, all in search of the ways the chemical elements are woven into our culture, history, and language"--
ER  -