The beauty of chemistry : art, wonder, and science

• Main Author: Ball, Philip, 1962- (Author)
• Other Authors: Zhu, Wenting (Photographer)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
• Subjects: chemie; chemistry; elektronické knihy; populárně-naučné publikace; fotografické publikace; electronic books; popular works; photographical works
• ISBN: 9780262363525; 9780262044417
• DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12792.001.0001
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj.

Images and text capture the astonishing beauty of the chemical processes that create snowflakes, bubbles, flames, and other wonders of nature. Chemistry is not just about microscopic atoms doing inscrutable things; it is the process that makes flowers and galaxies. We rely on it for bread-baking, ve...