"The kitchen pantry scientist's guide to chemistry features biographies of 25 leading chemists, past and present, accompanied by accessible, hands-on experiments and activities to bring the history and principles of chemistry alive"--
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ISBN:9781631598302 (trade paperback)
Physical Description:128 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm print
Publisher:Beverly, MA : Quarry Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group, 2020.
INTRODUCTION -- LAB 1 Tapputi-Belatikallim b. 1200 BCE* FRAGRANCE DISTILLATION -- LAB 2 Galen b. 129 CE* SOAP -- LAB 3 Jabir ibn Hayyan b. 815 CE* EVAPORATION -- LAB 4 Joseph Priestley b. 1733 CARBONATION -- LAB 5 Antoine Lavoisier b. 1743 OXIDATION -- LAB 6 Alessandro Volta b. 1745 CHEMICAL BATTERIES -- LAB 7 William Henry Perkin b. 1838 SYNTHETIC DYES -- LAB 8 Dmitri Mendeleev b. 1834 THE PERIODIC TABLE -- LAB 9 Svante August Arrhenius b. 1859 TEMPERATURE AND CHEMICAL REACTIONS -- LAB 10 Agnes Pockels b. 1862 SURFACE TENSION -- LAB 11 Marie Curie b. 1867 ELEMENTAL EXTRACTION -- LAB 12 S. P. L. S rensen b. 1868 THE PH SCALE -- LAB 13 Mikhail Tsvet b. 1872 CHROMATOGRAPHY -- LAB 14 Alice Ball b. 1892 ORGANIC OIL EXTRACTION -- LAB 15 Gerty Cori b. 1896 THE CORI CYCLE -- LAB 16 Maria Goeppert-Mayer b. 1906 THE NUCLEAR SHELL MODEL -- LAB 17 Rachel Carson b. 1907 DISPERSION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS -- LAB 18 Anna Jane Harrison b. 1912 ORGANIC COMPOUNDS AND ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT -- LAB 19 Rosalind Franklin b. 1920 DNA STRUCTURE -- LAB 20 Edith Flanigen b. 1929 MOLECULAR SIEVES -- LAB 21 Tu Youyou b. 1930 MEDICINAL PLANT COMPOUNDS -- LAB 22 Ada Yonath b. 1939 RIBOSOME STRUCTURE -- LAB 23 Margaret Cairns Etter b. 1943 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY -- LAB 24 Linda Buck b. 1947 OLFACTORY CHEMISTRY -- LAB 25 Raychelle Burks b. 1975
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