The science of Breaking Bad / Dave Trumbore and Donna J. Nelson.
Breaking Bad's (anti)hero Walter White (played by Emmy-winner Bryan Cranston) is a scientist, a high school chemistry teacher who displays a plaque that recognizes his "contributions to research awarded the Nobel Prize." During the course of five seasons, Walt practices a lot of ad ho...
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The MIT Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments. Meet Walter White
- Side RxN #1: crystallography and synchrotrons. Chemistry I : Chemical credits
- Side RxN #2: chemical composition of the human body
- Playing with fire
- It's a (phosphine) gas
- Side RxN #3: carbon, by any other name. Physics : DIY battery
- Side RxN #4: Breaking Bad balloons
- A magnetic conversation
- Side RxN #5: zombie computers
- Trouble brewing
- Side RxN #6: they're minerals, Marie! Chemistry II : Explosives: fulminated mercury and the wheelchair bomb
- Side RxN #7: quality face time with Gus Fring
- Pyrotechnics: thermite lockpick
- Side RxN #8: Walter White's fraying nerves
- Corrosives: hydrofluoric acid. Biology : Psychiatry: fugue state, panic attacks, and PTSD
- Side RxN #10: Walter White's heredity
- Side RxN #11: Holly White joins the show
- Oncology: cancer and treatment
- Side RxN #12: Walt's major award
- Toxicology: ricin, Lily of the Valley, and...cyanide?
- Pharmacology: drugs, addiction, and overdoses. Chemistry III : Methylamine: the solution is dilution
- Let's get analytical
- Side RxN #13: glass grade
- The lab maketh the meth
- Side RxN #14: qualitative analysis of foods at Madrigal
- Finale/felina. Glossary
- Notes
- Index.