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Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything

English

By (author): Tim James

SELECTED AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE DAILY MAIL

'A hugely entertaining tour of the periodic table and the 118 elements that are the basic building blocks of everything' Daily Mail

In 2016, with the addition of four final elements - nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson - to make a total of 118 elements, the periodic table was finally complete, rendering any pre-existing books on the subject obsolete.


Tim James, the science YouTuber and secondary-school teacher we all wish we'd had, provides an accessible and wonderfully entertaining 'biography of chemistry' that uses stories to explain the positions and patterns of elements in the periodic table. Many popular science titles tend to tell the history of scientific developments, leaving the actual science largely unexplained; James, however, makes use of stories to explain the principles of chemistry within the table, showing its relevance to everyday life.

Quirkily illustrated and filled with humour, this is the perfect book for students wanting to learn chemistry or for parents wanting to help, but it is also for anyone who wants to understand how our world works at a fundamental level. The periodic table, that abstract and seemingly jumbled graphic, holds (nearly) all the answers.

As James puts it, elements are 'the building blocks nature uses for cosmic cookery: the purest substances making up everything from beetroot to bicycles.'

Whether you're studying the periodic table for the first time or are simply interested in the fundamental building blocks of the universe - from the core of the sun to the networks in our brains - Elemental is the perfect guide.

Website: timjamesscience.com YouTube: timjamesScience Twitter: @tjamesScience

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Product Details
  • Weight: 283g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 232mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Jul 2018
  • Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781472140944

About Tim James

Tim James is a secondary-school science teacher YouTuber blogger and Instagrammer. Raised by missionaries in Nigeria he fell in love with science at the age of fifteen and refuses to get over his infatuation. After graduating with a Master's degree in chemistry specialising in computational quantum mechanics he decided to get straight into the classroom and now teaches science to anyone who will listen.

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