Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table by Kit ChapmanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is a great science book! I kid you not, it is a book you don’t want to put down, it’s just that fascinating. Chapman writes a fascinating history of chemistry. I kept wanting to know, what happened next? I am by no means a chemistry expert or anything like that, and as a lay person this was an easy to follow book. Chapman layers the information so by the later portions of the book you can understand what is being said without being overwhelmed by the terms.
The book contains humor and little bits that make the stories and people fascinating. You learn about more than just how the superheavy element discovery takes place, but who made that possible, and how. And there is drama in the book. There are only a few labs around the world hunting for new elements, and when they created just a few atoms, it becomes difficult to say with certainty that yes this is a new element. So competing labs have competing claims, and naming rights. This was a captivating read!
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