From Arsenic to Zirconium: Poems and Surprising Facts about the Elements

Davern, Peter

  • 出版商: No Starch Press
  • 出版日期: 2020-05-26
  • 定價: $800
  • 售價: 9.0$720
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 296
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1718500270
  • ISBN-13: 9781718500273
  • 相關分類: UI/UX
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商品描述

93 short poems that teach the lay reader about the elements of the periodic table. An entertaining and informative collection for a general audience by a professor of chemical sciences.

The Periodic Table of Poems is a unique collection of 93 short poems that explores the properties and nuances of each element in the periodic table. Davern discusses the science, history, and quirks of each element--things like why potassium reacts explosively with water, what about arsenic makes it both a deadly poison and a cure for syphilis, and how mercury inspired the term "mad as a hatter".

For example:

Li, small and light, the soft metal with mettle
Keeps much of our mobile-power'd world in good fettle;
In sea and in soil,
Floats on water and oil,
Has helped many's the troubled mind settle.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

《詩意元素週期表》是一本獨特的詩集,包含了93首短詩,向普通讀者介紹元素週期表的各個元素。這是一本娛樂性和知識性兼具的作品,由一位化學科學教授撰寫,適合一般讀者閱讀。

《詩意元素週期表》通過93首短詩探索了週期表中每個元素的特性和細微差異。Davern討論了每個元素的科學、歷史和特點,例如為什麼鉀會與水劇烈反應、砷為什麼既是致命毒藥又是梅毒的治療藥物、以及汞如何啟發了“瘋帽子匠”的詞語。

例如:
鋰,小而輕,這種柔軟的金屬有著堅韌的品質,
讓我們的移動電源世界保持良好的狀態;
在海洋和土壤中,
在水和油上漂浮,
幫助許多困擾的心靈安頓下來。

作者簡介

Dr. Peter Davern is a lecturer in the Department of Chemical Sciences at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He has been fascinated by the periodic table: its form, layout, the repeating patterns of chemical properties among groups of elements. Davern has spent the last 5 years researching interesting and useful properties about the elements and then transforming them into a collection of short, easy-to-remember poems.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

「Dr. Peter Davern」是愛爾蘭利默里克大學化學科學系的講師。他對於元素週期表的形式、佈局以及元素群組之間化學性質的重複模式深感著迷。Davern過去五年一直在研究元素的有趣和有用性質,並將它們轉化為一系列簡短且易於記憶的詩歌。