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Apr 29, 2012 rated it really liked it
I love pop science books and over the years I've read an awful lot of them. I sometimes get a bit wary of them because they tend to follow the same sort of format and cover a lot of the same material as others do. Well, most of the pop science books I've read are all about physics, astronomy, with a smattering about other topics like dinosaurs and such.

I'd never read one dedicated to the elements before. And I was hit with revelation after revelation on every page. New stories, this is as much a
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