Elegant solutions : ten beautiful experiments in chemistry / Philip Ball.
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 of...
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Royal Society of Chemistry,
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Table of Contents:
- What is an experiment? What is beauty?
- Asking questions of nature
- How does your garden grow?
- An element compounded
- New light
- Radiation explained
- The elements came in one by one
- The chemical theatre
- Posing new questions
- Molecules take shape
- Myths and romances
- Life and how to make it
- Not so noble
- The art of making things
- Nature rebuilt
- Plato's molecules
- Chemical aesthetics.