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Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You
Strange Chemistry The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You Author:Steven Farmer 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 multi... more »ple 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« less