The Periodic Table (book)

The Periodic Table (book)

Infobox Book
name = The Periodic Table
title_orig = Il sistema periodico
translator = Raymond Rosenthal


image_caption = Paperback cover - published by Abacus.
author = Primo Levi
illustrator =
country = United Kingdom
publisher = Abacus
release_date = 1985
media_type = Print (Hardcover) and (Paperback)
pages = 233
isbn = 0-349-12198-2

"The Periodic Table" ( _it. Il Sistema Periodico) is a collection of short stories by Primo Levi, published in 1975. In 2006, the Royal Institution of Great Britain named it the best science book ever [http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1927916,00.html] .

The stories have various themes: the experiences of life in Nazi concentration camps, legacies from the profession of chemistry, tales both true and with his own fantasy, creating a vision of the synthesis of the life of the author seen through the kaleidoscope of chemistry. Every story, 21 in total, has the name of a chemical element and is connected to it in some way.

Contents

# "argon" - infancy of the author, the community of Piedmontese Jews and their language
# "hydrogen" - two kids experiment with electrolysis
# "zinc" - laboratory experiments in a university
# "iron" - the adolescence of the author, between the racial laws and the Alps
# "potassium" - an experience in the laboratory with unexpected effects
# "nickel" - in the chemical laboratories of a mine
# "lead" - the story of a lead quarryman
# "mercury" - a story of life on a desolate island
# "phosphorus" - an experience from a job in the chemical industry
# "gold" - a story of imprisonment
# "cerium" - in order to survive in the "Lager"
# "chromium" - a recovery of livered varnishes
# "sulfur" - an experience from a job in the chemical industry
# "titanium" - a scene of daily life
# "arsenic" - consultation about a sugar sample
# "nitrogen" - trying to manufacture cosmetics by scratching the floor of a hen-house
# "tin" - a domestic chemical laboratory
# "uranium" - consultation about a piece of metal
# "silver" - the story of some unsuitable photographic plates
# "vanadium" - to find a German chemist after the war
# "carbon" - the history of a carbon atom

Book information

"The Periodic Table" by Primo Levi.
* Hardcover - ISBN 0-679-44722-9 (ISBN-13: 978-0-679-44722-1), published in September 1996 by Random House
* Paperback - ISBN 0-805-21041-5 (ISBN-13: 9780805210415), published in April 1995 by Knopf Publishing Group


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