The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire and Phosphorus by John Emsley was a very informative book. At first, I was so excited to read this book when I saw its title, but you should never judge a book by its cover. The book included a lot of detail, but to me, a lot of unimportant ones. There were many parts of the story that I liked, but there were only limited amounts of information on them compared to the technical details of small subjects. This really bugged me as the author went into too much detail in subjects I was very curious about. The book goes through every single detail you could possibly know about phosphorus. I can tell that the author did a lot of research on phosphorus as he put together everything from the way phosphorus
