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I did learn a lot of new stories and anecdotes that I can bring into the classroom, but some stories in here were just not interesting to me, or so abstract and high level that the attempts to explain them with simple analogies left me feeling dumb. And I took P-Chem back in the day! I felt it focused a lot on more recently discovered elements and really missed out on some wild stories of the more fundamental elements. The mentions of phosphorus focused on the phosphate of DNA, what about how phosphorus was first discovered and thought to be the philosopher’s stone!? Maybe the author wanted to highlight lesser known facts, but I occasionally skipped passages that made me yawn.