“Graphite is a shiny black mineral. It is also called plumbago and black lead. The name black lead came into use because graphite, like the soft metal lead, leaves a gray streak when it is rubbed over paper. It is the principal constituent of the ‘lead’ of lead pencils.”
Pauling and Hayward team up to produce a technically sound, aesthetically beautiful book which introduces young people to the architecture of molecules.
San Francisco and London: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1964. Softcover. Folio. 114 pages. Covers clean with some edge wear and slightly turned up corners and edges. Original price tag affixed to top cover. Binding solid. Pages somewhat tanned. Nice copy.
