Mendeleyev's Dream

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• neerajk · Dec 26, 2022 · Recommends

  In a similar vein also recommend “Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements” by Paul Strathern.

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• groby_b · Dec 18, 2024 · Recommends

  > How did folk medicine come to know the effects of guanidine? Dunno. The same way we know a lot about other things in the chemistry domain - somebody tasted it, just to see what happens. "Mendeleyev's Dream" is a great book that contains many fascinating anecdotes of people going "let me just lick this, just to try". (Or, if you want to go more modern, the history of hallucinogens is pretty fun too) Humans…

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