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Seven Elements That Changed the World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery
By Browne, John
- ISBN
- 9781605985404
- Publisher
- Pegasus
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Reviewed on December 1, 2013 | Science and Technology
While the title and cover may lead readers to expect this book to be similar to Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson's Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History, it mixes in a lot of memoir. The author considers iron, carbon, gold, silver, uranium, titanium, and silicon through the lens of science, history, politics, and his professional experience at British Petro...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
