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Uncle Tungsten: memories of a chemical boyhood
Uncle Tungsten: memories of a chemical boyhood
Author
Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
Publisher
Vintage Books
Publication Date
[2002]
Edition
First Vintage Books Edition.
Language
English
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From the Book - First Vintage Books Edition.
Uncle Tungsten
"37"
Exile
"An ideal metal"
Light for the masses
Land of stibnite
Chemical recreations
Stinks and bangs
Housecalls
Chemical language
Humphry Davy: a poet-chemist
Images
Mr. Dalton's round bits of wood
Lines of force
Home life
Mendeleev's garden
Pocket spectroscope
Cold fire
Ma
Penetrating rays
Madame Curie's element
Cannery row
World set free
Brilliant light
End of the affair
Afterword.
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Subjects
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Biography
Chemie
England
Natuurwetenschappen
Neurologists
Neurologists -- England -- Biography
Sacks, Oliver
Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
Sacks, Oliver W
Sacks, Oliver W., 1933-
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9780375704048
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