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SUMMARY:Nonfiction Book Group: The Disappearing Spoon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of The Disappearing Spoon by Sam
 Kean. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk and in our
 eLibrary.\n\nWe will meet in-person in the Reading Room. Please register if
 you would like to receive a reminder.\n\nThe periodic table of the elements
 is a crowning scientific achievement\, but it's also a treasure trove of
 passion\, adventure\, obsession\, and betrayal. These tales follow carbon\,
 neon\, silicon\, gold\, and all the elements in the table as they play out
 their parts in human history. The usual suspects are here\, like Marie
 Curie (and her radioactive journey to the discovery of polonium and radium)
 and William Shockley (who is credited\, not exactly justly\, with the
 discovery of the silicon transistor)--but the more obscure characters
 provide some of the best stories\, like Paul Emile François Lecoq de
 Boisbaudran\, whose discovery of gallium\, a metal with a low melting
 point\, gives this book its title: a spoon made of gallium will melt in a
 cup of tea.--From publisher description.\n\nRegistration Required: please
 visit the library calendar to register.
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CATEGORIES:Books, Reading, Writing
LOCATION:Reading Room\, Weston Public Library\, 87 School Street\, Weston\,
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