Poetic Atoms (Hardcover Collector's Edition) Author: Kurt Stagg Publisher: Unread Tianjin Technology Press

Introduction · · · · · ·
What do atoms have to do with your life? In this book, Kurt Stager reveals their connection to incredible events in the universe.

The iron in your blood is an important element of hemoglobin, and it is also the culprit of a star explosion 200 million years ago; the carbon in your breath may become part of a tree trunk; the nitrogen in your muscles will help the sky turn blue; the sodium will connect the tears in your eyes with the sea that disappeared in ancient times... The elements that make up everything in the world are exactly the same as every element that makes up your body. How do you understand that you are a living being, but also a bunch of lifeless atoms?

The book tells about 8 elements that are important to humans: oxygen, hydrogen, iron, carbon, sodium, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. You will find that you are not just made up of atoms, you are the atom, and this book is a roaming guide to the atomic world.