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The Last Alchemist in Paris: And Other Curious Tales from Chemistry

By Lars Ohrstrom

Book information

Year
2013
ISBN
2013940788, 9780199661091
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2543769 bytes)
Pages
\272
Time added
2020-06-20 18:27:09

Description

Cover Contents Preamble: The Periodic Table and the Da Vinci Code 1 Mr Khama is Coming to Dinner 2 From Bitterfeld with Love 3 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Airship 4 The Spy and the Saracen’s Secret 5 Biopiracy: The Curse of the Nutmeg 6 Death at Number 29 7 Blue Blooded Stones and the Prisoner in the Crystal Cage 8 Diamonds are Forever and Zirconium is for Submarines 9 Graphite Valley: IT in the Eighteenth-Century Lake District 10 The Emperor and Miss Smilla 11 Rendezvous on the High Plateau 12 The Last Alchemist in Paris 13 Pardon My French: Captain Haddock and the Sufferings of the Savoyards 14 Two Brilliant Careers 15 War and Vanity 16 When State Security was a Stinking Business 17 Bonaparte’s Bursting Buttons: A Thin Story 18 I Told You So, Said Marcus Vitruvius Pollio 19 A Shiny Surface and a Tainted Past 20 The Actress and the Spin Doctor 21 Of Pea-Soup, Dangers of Coffee in the Morning, and the Test of Mr Marsh 22 To Take Back the Future Acknowledgments Bibliography References Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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