The Periodic Table

Hardcover, 256 pages

English language

Published Sept. 21, 1995 by Everyman's Library.

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978-1-85715-218-0
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“The Periodic Table “ by Primo Levi (originally published in 1971) Primo Levi ( 1919 – 1987) was a chemist, a writer, and a survivor. of Auschwitz. In chemistry, the periodic table is a result of organizing chemical elements into families based on similarities of properties. For example, elements such as carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus are nonmetals, whereas iron, chromium, silver, gold, and mercury are metals. Metals such as potassium and sodium are alkali metals whereas iron, silver, and gold are transition metals. And so on.

Primo Levi's book “The Periodic Table” is a collection of essays that he wrote about particular times and events in his life. Each essay has as its title the name of a particular element, and the essay is built around the work that he was involved in, or some incident that involved that element, but the telling is immensely enriched by its personal and …

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  • Biography: general
  • Modern fiction
  • The Holocaust
  • History: World
  • Italian