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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Format: Trade Paperback
Author: Farmer, Steven
ISBN: 9781119265269
Condition: New
Dimensions: 8.90 x 0.90
Number Of Pages: 364
Publication Year: 2017

Language: English

Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You

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