The Alchemy of Almost Nothing | Trace Elements and Their Outsized Influence On Chemical Reactions
Lingua: inglese
Editore: Expedition Publishers, 2026
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The Alchemy of Almost Nothing | Trace Elements and Their Outsized Influence On Chemical Reactions | Priya Anantharaman | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Expedition Publishers | EAN 9798235842977 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.
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- Titolo
- The Alchemy of Almost Nothing | Trace Elements and Their Outsized Influence On Chemical Reactions
- Autore
- Priya Anantharaman
- Editore
- Expedition Publishers
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 2026
- Condizione
- Neu
- Rilegatura
- Taschenbuch
- Lingua
- inglese
- ISBN 13
- 9798235842977
- Peso dell'articolo
- 276 grammi
- Dimensioni
- 229 x 152 x 10 mm
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- Bücher
A pinch too small to taste. A speck too small to see. And yet, again and again, these vanishing traces have quietly decided who eats and who starves, who breathes clean air and who does not, which inventions changed the world and which ones poisoned it for seventy years before anyone noticed.
The Alchemy of Almost Nothing tells the story of the tiniest ingredients in chemistry, the ones measured in parts per million rather than pounds, and the outsized, often astonishing power they hold over the reactions that built the modern world.
You will meet the single atom of molybdenum sitting at the heart of an ancient enzyme, quietly pulling nitrogen from the air to feed the roots of every legume crop on Earth. You will follow the German chemists who copied that trick using iron, potassium, and a pressure vessel hot enough to glow, in a discovery that now feeds nearly half the human population alive today. You will sit inside a Sheffield laboratory in 1913 as a frustrated metallurgist, chasing a completely different problem, stumbles onto the alloy that would become stainless steel. You will watch three physicists in a New Jersey lab, working with a sliver of purified germanium and a strip of gold foil, accidentally invent the transistor and the entire digital age along with it.
And you will confront the darker side of this same power: the story of the chemist who discovered that a few grams of a lead compound could quiet an engine's knock, and the geochemist who spent thirty years proving that compound was quietly poisoning a generation of children, one imperceptible trace at a time.
This is not a book about famous elements. It is a book about the overlooked ones, the also-rans of the periodic table, small in quantity and enormous in consequence. Written with the pace of the best popular science storytelling, each chapter unfolds like a detective story: an unexplained phenomenon, a scientist who refuses to let it go, and a discovery that quietly rewrites some corner of medicine, industry, or history.
Inside, you will discover:
How a Dutch microbiologist's jar of dirt led to the discovery that a single rare metal makes the nitrogen cycle of the entire planet possible
Why a British metallurgist's "failed" rifle barrel experiment gave the world stainless steel, and why his own employer ignored him for years
How a Nobel Prize winning crystallographer spent eight years mapping a single vitamin molecule, atom by atom, to save patients from a disease with no cure for a hundred years
The verified story of how three researchers across three decades built the lithium battery now sitting in your pocket, and why it took a physicist working into his late nineties to see it finally recognized
Why an American engineer's confident 1924 public demonstration concealed a poisoning he had personally survived weeks earlier, and how it took until 1996 to undo the damage
How a single isotope, present in your own body at one part in a trillion, became the clock that rewrote the timeline of ancient human civilization
Written for curious general readers rather than chemists, grounded entirely in real, documented history and verified science, The Alchemy of Almost Nothing will change how you see the ordinary objects around you: the salt in your kitchen, the knife in your drawer, the phone in your hand. Once you learn to notice the whisper of a few parts per million, you will not stop finding it, quietly at work, everywhere you look.
Small enough to miss. Powerful enough to change everything. Read the book that reveals the hidden chemistry running the modern world, one vanishing trace at a time.
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