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

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