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Strange chemistry : the stories your chemistry teacher wouldn't tell you / Steven Farmer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farmer, Steven C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chemistry--Popular works.
- Chemistry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2017.
- Summary:
- This book opens the audience's eyes to the extraordinary scientific secrets hiding in everyday objects. Helping readers increase chemistry knowledge in a fun and entertaining way, the book is perfect as a supplementary textbook or gift to curious professionals and novices. • Appeals to a modern audience of science lovers by discussing multiple examples of chemistry in everyday life • Addresses compounds that affect everyone in one way or another: poisons, pharmaceuticals, foods, and illicit drugs; thereby evoking a powerful emotional response which increases interest in the topic at hand • Focuses on edgy types of stories that chemists generally tend to avoid so as not to paint chemistry in a bad light; however, these are the stories that people find interesting • Provides detailed and sophisticated stories that increase the reader's fundamental scientific knowledge • Discusses complex topics in an engaging and accessible manner, providing the "how" and "why" that takes readers deeper into the stories
- Contents:
- If you do not know anything chemistry, this chapter is for you
- The only true aphrodisiac and other chemical extremes
- The poisons in everyday things
- Why old books smell good and other mysteries of everyday objects
- Bath salts and other drugs of abuse
- Why oil is such a big part of our lives
- Why junior mints are shiny and other weird facts about your food
- The radioactive banana and other natural radioactivity
- Chemistry is explosive!
- The chemistry in breaking bad and other popular culture
- Why you shouldn't use illegally made drugs : the real reason.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781119265290
- 1119265290
- 9781119265283
- 1119265282
- 9781119265276
- 1119265274
- OCLC:
- 988581187
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