The Disappearing Spoon Analysis

Sam Kean author of The Disappearing Spoon from a young age showed interest in the sciences. During his youth Sam constantly fell ill, resulting in being left home alone with a thermometer in his mouth often. The curiosity for the thermometer’s ability to tell temperature led to his fascination of the periodic table. The thermometer would slip from Sam's mouth creating small puddles of mercury; which his mother would clump together with toothpicks. As Sam observed he noticed how mercury would combine without leaving a trace of ever being separated, increasing his curiosity, Mercury as he found out is a shallow element only wanting to bind to itself. Mercury allowed Sam to learn more of other subjects, by learning mercury's usage. Being from