How long does it take to read Periodic Tales?
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Periodic Tales by Hugh Aldersey-Williams takes about 7 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 53 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2011. 430 pages, about 118,250 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"In the spirit of A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING, an energetic and wide-ranging book of discovery and discoverers, of exploitation and celebration, and of superstition and science, all in search of the ways the chemical elements are woven into our culture, history, and language"--
Subjects: Chemical elements, Discoveries in science, SCIENCE / General, Periodic law, History, Periodic table of the elements
