Alchemy of Almost Nothing: Trace Elements and Their Outsized Influence On Chemical Reactions

A pinch too small to taste. A speck too small to see. And yet, again and again, these vanishing traces have quietly decided who eats and who starves, who breathes clean air and who does not, which inventions changed the world and which ones poisoned it for seventy years before anyone noticed.The Alchemy of Almost Nothing tells the story of the tiniest ingredients in chemistry, the ones measured in...