The Joy of Element Collecting image of the element Pm Radon is slightly annoying too, but not quite as much

Audiophiles who think that over-priced gold-plated components improve the sound quality generally are wrong.

image of vintage radium condoms with text "Radium condoms, thankfully, did not contain radium"

It's Elementary, My Dear

As instantly recongizable as the Nike logo, the Taj Mahal, or Einstein's hair

image of a heart cast out of bismuth image of a circuit board Who would have thought that you can find very pure niobium in very impure piercing shops "Bling" is the only word that accurately describes this massively cheap gold plated necklace

(Intentionally witholding information about the dangers of licking radioactive paintbrushes is at the high end of that scale.)

diagrams of electron valence shells Almost everything you see in this book is sitting somewhere in my office, except for that one thing the FBI confiscated and a few historical objects image of the element Bi ? ? ? ? ?