The Elements We Live by: How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table

by Anja Røyne

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Some elements get all the attention: glittering gold, radioactive uranium--materials we call "precious" because they are so rare. But what could be more precious than the building blocks of life--from the oxygen in our air to the carbon in all living things?

In The Elements We Live By, physicist and award-winning author Anja R yne reminds us that we'd be lost without the quiet heroes of the periodic table. Our bodies need phosphorous...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1615196455

ISBN13:9781615196456

Release Date:June 2020

Publisher:Experiment

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"

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