The Cartoon Guide to ChemistryThe Cartoon Guide to Chemistry
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Book, 2004
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Current format, Book, 2004, 1st ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsUses cartoons to discuss chemistry, covering the history of the field and examining such topics as acids, solutions, biochemistry, thermodynamics, logarithms, and physical and organic chemistry.
A leading scientist and an award-winning cartoonist team up to provide a complete, up-to-date course in college-level chemistry, covering the history of the scientific field, as well as such topics as physical and organic chemistry, biochemistry, environmental chemistry, physics as chemistry, electrochemistry, and more. Original.
Gonick has been creating comic guides to history, science, and other subjects for over 30 years and is staff cartoonist for Muse magazine. He and Criddle (environmental engineering and science, Stanford U.) begin their cartoon guide with the history of chemistry and then present information accompanied by humorous illustrations covering subjects that students would learn in a college level chemistry class. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
A leading scientist and an award-winning cartoonist team up to provide a complete, up-to-date course in college-level chemistry, covering the history of the scientific field, as well as such topics as physical and organic chemistry, biochemistry, environmental chemistry, physics as chemistry, electrochemistry, and more. Original.
Gonick has been creating comic guides to history, science, and other subjects for over 30 years and is staff cartoonist for Muse magazine. He and Criddle (environmental engineering and science, Stanford U.) begin their cartoon guide with the history of chemistry and then present information accompanied by humorous illustrations covering subjects that students would learn in a college level chemistry class. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
If you have ever suspected that "heavy water" is the title of a bootleg Pink Floyd album, believed that surface tension is an anxiety disorder, or imagined that a noble gas is the result of a heavy meal at Buckingham Palace, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry to set you on the road to chemical literacy.
You don't need to be a scientist to grasp these and many other complex ideas, because The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry explains them all: the history and basics of chemistry, atomic theory, combustion, solubility, reaction stoichiometry, the mole, entropy, and much more&;all explained in simple, clear, and yes, funny illustrations. Chemistry will never be the same!
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