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2020 Finalist: Young Adult Science Book

Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table, by Kit Chapman. Bloomsbury Sigma, 2019.

The science of element discovery is a truly fascinating field, and is constantly rewriting the laws of chemistry and physics as we know them. Superheavy is the first book to take an in-depth look at how synthetic elements are discovered, why they matter and where they will take us.