Human chemistry

Our bodies consist of chemical elements - this is obvious, but we rarely think about how important and indispensable each element is: for example, phosphorus holds our DNA, potassium nourishes our optic nerves, and thanks to the iron, oxygen enters the lungs. We are made of the same material as the surrounding world, and we can only exist until we get all the substances necessary for life in the form of food, water and air. Other important elements support our technologies and our entire society in working condition. The history of human civilization is in many ways the story of how we have learned to extract the substances from the bowels of the Earth and cultivate them, but how long this success story can continue, do we risk the land? The physicist Anya Royne invites us to an amazing journey through the most unexpected places in the planet and at once in several sciences - chemistry, physics, geology - to introduce us to the bricks, from which our bodies and everything else are made in the world, and tell where they come from. Now we can see in the completely new light of little -known and unprecedented heroes of the periodic table of Mendeleev and imbued with honored respect