The Periodic Table

The Periodic Table
ISBN-10
0679444637
ISBN-13
9780679444633
Series
The Periodic Table
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
241
Language
English
Published
1996
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Author
Primo Levi

Description

One of Italy's leading men of letters, a chemist by profession, writes about incidents in his life in which one or another of the elements figured in such a way as to become a personal preoccupation

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