Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything —By Tim James

A science teacher by profession, Mr. James knows how to get his audience’s attention. . . . Elemental informs and entertains. . . . With hand-drawn diagrams, wacky humor and assorted facts, Elemental is great fun, taking us to realms beyond anything Mendeleyev ever dreamed of. — The Wall Street Journal  A hugely entertaining tour of the periodic table and the 118 elements that are the basic building blocks of everything. — Daily Mail If you want to understand how our world works, the periodic table holds the answers. When the seventh row of the periodic table of elements was completed in June 2016 with the addition of four final elements — nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson — we at last could identify all the ingredients necessary to construct our world. In Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything, chemist, secondary school teacher, science YouTuber Tim James provides an informative, entertaining and quirkily illustrated guide to the periodic ta