Strange Chemistry

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Strange Chemistry

The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You

Popular science Chemistry

Author: Steven Farmer

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Language: English

Published by: Wiley

Published on: 14th June 2017

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 11 Mb

ISBN: 9781119265283


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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