Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You, Paperback/Steven Farmer

Contributor(s): 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 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   Review citations Kirkus Reviews - 01/15/2018 Choice - 07/01/2018