Strange Chemistry (The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You)

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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