The Elements We Live By: How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Elements We Live By: How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table runs 5.9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Donna Postel (about 3.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| 30 min / day | 12 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
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What our data says
- At 5.9 hours, it is shorter than 76% of the 1,603 Biology & Chemistry audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Donna Postel
Donna Postel narrates 155 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,608 hours in all.
About as long, on the Biology & Chemistry shelf
139 Biology & Chemistry audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Elements We Live By: How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table is an audiobook by Anja Røyne: a 5.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Donna Postel, released June 9, 2020, on the Biology & Chemistry shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 5.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Donna Postel
- Released
- June 9, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Biology & Chemistry
- ISBN
- 9781705200209
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How long is The Elements We Live By: How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table as an audiobook?
The Elements We Live By: How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table runs 5.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.9 hours.
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Who narrates The Elements We Live By: How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table?
The Elements We Live By: How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table is narrated by Donna Postel.