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Strange Chemistry
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Publisher Price: $61.95
ISBN13: 9781119265269
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: Jul 12 2017
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
- 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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