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Bezig met laden... Elemental Haiku: Poems to honor the periodic table, three lines at a timedoor Mary Soon Lee
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Contains one or two haiku about each of the 119 elements, and a sentence or two explaining the reason for each haiku. This is a fun book to read and represents an interesting challenge. Alternate pages are grey with white text that did not have enough contrast for me, especially when reading at night. ( ) I saw this one in a science museum gift shop, and was instantly charmed by it, and I'm very pleased to report that I still felt that way all the way through reading it. It features one haiku-style poem for every element on the periodic table, relating in some way to that element's properties, history, or uses. These range from deeply serious to mildly amusing, and I'm honestly impressed by how well the author pulls the whole thing off. Nothing ever feels contrived or kitschy or forced, and even towards they end where it's mostly a bunch of different ways to say "here's a highly radioactive element somebody made in a lab for two seconds," it doesn't get tiring. Each entry also includes a sentence or three explaining the science or history behind the poem. For the ones I understood without the explanation, this was a little distracting and detracted from things a bit, but for the ones where I needed the context (something that happened a lot more often as the atomic numbers rose), I found it both helpful and enjoyable. Basically, the whole thing was just a pleasant little read perfect for my nerdy little soul. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)546.8Natural sciences and mathematics Chemistry Inorganic Periodic tableLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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