Wonderful Life with the Elements - The Periodic Table Personified.pdf

Wonderful Life with the Elements: The Periodic Table Personified is perhaps, a true example of science made beautiful through art. The subject of Chemistry is made interesting with the creative writer's attempt in the book, Wonderful Life with the Elements. The brilliance of the writer lies in the fact that he anthropomorphizes the elements of the periodic table by personifying them and attributing a comic sense to their appearance. This makes it more interesting for the young readers and helps them remember the elements and their properties in an easier manner.

Wonderful Life with the Elements: The Periodic Table Personified associates elements with some of the fictional attributes that children are familiar with. For example, the heavy elements are made to appear fat and robust, the invented elements are made to appear robotic and the category of noble gases are depicted as impressive loving characters. Other features of all the elements signify one or the other property of the element. As such, it becomes easy for anybody to remember the chemical properties of the elements such as the atomic number, atomic weight, density, boiling point etc.

The first edition of this book was published by No Starch Press in 2012 and is available in hardcover.

Key Features:

In this book, the elements are humanized and the narrative approach of a story is used to get the message across.
The book is quite humorous and and makes a subject like chemistry more interesting