Episode 105: Periodic Table Contents
About this episode
In this week’s episode we pay tribute to the periodic table. We talk to Sam Kean, author of the best-selling book The Disappearing Spoon and hear an excerpt from Primo Levi’s book The Periodic Table.
SHOW CLOCK
00:00 Opening Credits
00:31 Introduction
01:21 Interview with Sam Kean
09:28 "Carbon," from The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
12:57 Competition - Elemental Memoir
13:31 Closing Credits
CREDITS
Special thanks to Michal Meyer and Mia Lobel for researching this show. Additional credits available at chemheritage.org/distillations.
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