Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry
Devising and performing a scientific experiment is an art, and it is common to hear scientists talk about the 'beauty' of an experiment. What does this mean in chemistry, the experimental science par excellence? And what are the most beautiful chemical experiments of all time? This book offers ten suggestions for where beauty might reside in experimental chemistry. In some cases the beauty lies in the clarity of conception; sometimes it is a feature of the instrumental design. But for chemistry, there can also be a unique beauty in the way atoms are put together to make new molecules, substances not known in nature. The ten experiments descri…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-85404-674-4
- EAN: 9780854046744
- Produktnummer: 1878763
- Verlag: Royal Society Of Chemistry
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 220 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.7 cm 463 g
- Gewicht: 463
Über den Autor
Phillip Ball is a renowned, prolific, award winning science writer. Previous publications include; Designing the Molecular World (1994), which won the Association of American Publishers' award for the best chemistry book, H2O: A Biography of Water (1999) winner of the Premio Acqua Scrittura award for best international writing on water, and Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour (2001) which won the 2003 Society for the History of Technology award for the best writing on the history of technology, and was shortlisted for a US National Book Critics Circle award in 2002.
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