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Chemistry Made Easy by
The First Book To Truly Make Chemistry Easy - Special Launch Price! This book includes over 300 illustrations to help you visualize what is necessary to understand chemistry at it's core. While Chemistry is a huge topic, it's not necessary to spend years studying it unless it's your major in college. For most of us, we need a clear grasp on the subject to progress through school. This book has you covered. You will surely not be a chemistry newbie after reading this. You will learn that chemistry is about matter. You can break matter down a great deal-all the way down to molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles. The smaller the matter, the more fascinating it gets. Click the cover to see what's inside. Then get yours now by clicking the "Buy Now" button!
The Beauty of Chemistry by
Images and text capture the astonishing beauty of the chemical processes that create snowflakes, bubbles, flames, and other wonders of nature. Chemistry is not just about microscopic atoms doing inscrutable things; it is the process that makes flowers and galaxies. We rely on it for bread-baking, vegetable-growing, and producing the materials of daily life. In stunning images and illuminating text, this book captures chemistry as it unfolds. Using such techniques as microphotography, time-lapse photography, and infrared thermal imaging, The Beauty of Chemistry shows us how chemistry underpins the formation of snowflakes, the science of champagne, the colors of flowers, and other wonders of nature and technology. We see the marvelous configurations of chemical gardens; the amazing transformations of evaporation, distillation, and precipitation; heat made visible; and more.
Chemistry : our past, present, and future
Discussing the vital role of chemistry in everyday life, this work encourages readers to understand how the knowledge of chemistry is important for the development of society and a better future. Part I covers the historical aspects of chemistry and discusses how countless discoveries since the beginning of life on Earth have benefited human beings. Part II focuses on modern life and describes chemistry's contribution to the developments in the fields of food and agriculture, energy, transportation, medicine, and communications. Part III emphasizes the role of chemists and educators in making the layperson aware of the benefits of chemistry without having them attempt to plow through its complexities. Written in an easy-to-understand manner and supplemented by ample number of figures and tables, the book will cater to a broad readership ranging from general readers to experts.-- Provided by publisher
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"--The publisher