Overview
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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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781119265269
- ISBN-10: 1119265266
- Publisher: Wiley
- Publish Date: July 2017
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
- Page Count: 364
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