The Elements We Live By: How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table by Anja Røyne

The Elements We Live By: How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table

Anja Røyne

224 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction science informative slow-paced
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An around-the-world journey to discover where in the wild we can find the elements of life and the surprising ways they’re essential to our survival.We all know that we depend on elements for survival—from the oxygen in the air we breathe to the c...

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