John Emsley: Molecules at an Exhibition : Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life

Have you ever wondered about the chemistry behind everyday materials like salt, fuels, caffeine or medicine? This book takes a bunch of molecules familiar to most people, either from their everyday life or from news headlines and explores them from a chemist's point of view.

The result is an intriguing book, written in an enthusiastic and friendly style. It doesn't take much understanding of chemistry to follow Emsley and he offers interesting perspectives to everyday materials. Molecules at an Exhibition is a good and entertaining way to increase one's knowledge on chemistry. (Review based on the Finnish translation.) [ Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life at Amazon.co.uk ] [ Molecules at an Exhibition at LibraryThing ]