Chemistry History

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    • Written by: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2010-04-01
    • Language: English
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    • A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson’s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....

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    • The Unlikely History of Radium
    • Written by: Lucy Jane Santos
    • Narrated by: Deirdre Whelan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2021-07-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the 19th century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal. Half Lives tells the fascinating, curious, sometimes macabre story of the element....

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    • 17 Molecules That Changed History
    • Written by: Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2011-10-10
    • Language: English
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    • Napoleon's Buttons is the fascinating account of 17 groups of molecules that have greatly influenced the course of history....

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    • The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
    • Written by: Venki Ramakrishnan
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2018-11-06
    • Language: English
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    • Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome....

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    • A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
    • Written by: Natalie Angier
    • Narrated by: Nike Doukas
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2007-06-13
    • Language: English
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    • Buckle up for a joy ride through physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy....

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    • A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
    • Written by: Jessica Wapner
    • Narrated by: Heather Henderson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2013-05-14
    • Language: English
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    • Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines....

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    • A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
    • Written by: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2010-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives - including your own....

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    • Written by: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2018-04-04
    • Language: English
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    • A young listeners edition of the New York Times best seller The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary stories behind one of the greatest scientific tools in existence: the periodic table....

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    • The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (The Great Discoveries Series)
    • Written by: Madison Smartt Bell
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Series: Great Discoveries
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2022-06-28
    • Language: English
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    • Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists....

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    • Written by: Lawrence M. Principe
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2023-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • In The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and culture....

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    • Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Written by: DK
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2019-12-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Exploring more than 80 of the world's most scientific theories and big ideas across the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology, and math, this audiobook offers a fascinating look at the history of science....

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    • Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
    • Written by: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2017-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The fascinating science and history of the air we breathe. It's invisible. It's ever present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell....

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    • Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
    • Written by: Dan Egan
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2023-03-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Phosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. But it’s also the key component of one of the most vital: fertilizer, which has sustained life for billions of people....

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    • Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
    • Written by: Robert M. Hazen
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2019-06-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It's in the fibers in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe. It's worth billions as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity....

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    • A Cultural History of the Elements, From Arsenic to Zinc
    • Written by: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2015-04-28
    • Language: English
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    • Like the alphabet, the calendar, or the zodiac, the periodic table of the chemical elements has a permanent place in our imagination....

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    • Written by: Ian Tattersall, Rob DeSalle
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2019-02-27
    • Language: English
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    • From ancient Mesopotamian fermentation practices to the resurgent American craft brewery, authors Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall peruse the historical record and traverse the globe for engaging and often surprising stories about beer....

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    • The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
    • Written by: George D. Morgan, Ashley Stroupe
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2017-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • America succeeded in launching rockets into space, but only because of the joint efforts of the brilliant farm girl from North Dakota and the famous German scientist....

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    • What the Nose Tells the Mind
    • Written by: A.S. Barwich
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2020-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A pioneering exploration of olfaction that upsets settled notions of how the brain translates sensory information....

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    • A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life
    • Written by: Theresa Levitt
    • Narrated by: Esther Wane
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2023-05-23
    • Language: English
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    • For centuries, scientists believed that living matter possessed a special quality—a spirit or essence—that differentiated it from nonliving matter. But by the nineteenth century, the scientific consensus was that the building blocks of one were identical to the building blocks of the other....

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    • How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
    • Written by: Annalee Newitz
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2013-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes....

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