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Encyclopedia > The Periodic Table (book)
The elements that are titles of the stories.
The elements that are titles of the stories.

The Periodic Table (Italian: Il Sistema Periodico) is a collection of short stories by Primo Levi, published in 1975. This article is in need of attention. ... Primo Levi. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...


The stories have various themes: the experiences of life in Nazi concentration camps, legacies from the profession of chemistry, tales both true and with his own fantasy, creating a vision of the synthesis of the life of the author seen through the kaleidoscope of chemistry. Every story, 21 in total, has the name of a chemical element and is connected to it in some way: It has been suggested that Internment be merged into this article or section. ... Chemistry (from Greek χημεία khemeia[1] meaning alchemy) is the science of matter at the atomic to molecular scale, dealing primarily with collections of atoms, such as gases, molecules, crystals, and metals. ... The periodic table of the chemical elements (this version outdated on October 13, 2006) A chemical element, often called simply an element, is a substance that cannot be decomposed or transformed into other chemical substances by ordinary chemical processes. ...

  1. argon - infancy of the author, the community of Piedmontese Jews and their language
  2. hydrogen - two kids experiment with electrolysis
  3. zinc - laboratory experiments in a university
  4. iron - the adolescence of the author, between the racial laws and the Alps
  5. potassium - an experience in the laboratory with unexpected effects
  6. nickel - in the chemical laboratories of a mine
  7. lead - the story of a lead quarryman
  8. mercury - a story of life on a desolate island
  9. phosphorus - an experience from a job in the chemical industry
  10. gold - a story of imprisonment
  11. cerium - in order to survive in the Lager
  12. chromium - a recovery of livered varnishes
  13. sulfur - an experience from a job in the chemical industry
  14. titanium - a scene of daily life
  15. arsenic - consultation about a sugar sample
  16. nitrogen - trying to manufacture cosmetics by scratching the floor of a hen-house
  17. tin - a domestic chemical laboratory
  18. uranium - consultation about a piece of metal
  19. silver - the story of some unsuitable photographic plates
  20. vanadium - to find a German chemist after the war
  21. carbon - the history of a carbon atom


 

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