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Strange Chemistry

by Steven Farmer
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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
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    Publisher: Wiley

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    • ISBN: 9781119265283
    • File size: 11630 KB
    • Release date: June 14, 2017

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    • ISBN: 9781119265283
    • File size: 11630 KB
    • Release date: June 14, 2017
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    subjects

    Science Chemistry Nonfiction

    Languages

    English

    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
    • Expand title description text
    Science Chemistry Nonfiction