Chemistry in the Marketplace

Name: Chemistry in the Marketplace
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ISBN: 9781865082554

ISBN-10: 1865082554

ISBN-13: 9781865082554

Edition: 5th 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Ben Selinger

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If you enjoy fresh sights, new foods, and making voyages of discovery into the world around you, you will enjoy this book.This invaluable reference book explores the hidden world of chemistry that surrounds us in our daily life: in the bedroom (perfumes, deodorants and sunscreens); the kitchen (nutrition, food preparation and commercial processing); the restaurant (wine, food additives and poisons). It leads you into the garden where a consumer's safety guide is essential, through the chemistry of soils, weeds and pesticides. It explores your car (petrol, batteries and solar energy), your home safety (toxicity and flammability), your shopping basket (plastics, glass and metals) and the…

Book details

List price: $59.95
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publication date: 1/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Some basic ideas



Chemistry of health and risk



Chemistry in the laundry



Chemistry in the kitchen



Chemistry in the boudoir



Chemistry of surfaces



Chemistry in the garden



Chemistry of swimming pools



Chemistry of hardware



Chemistry of metals



Chemistry of fibres, fabrics and other yarns



Chemistry of paints, adhesives, enamels and concrete



Chemistry in the medicine cabinet



Chemistry of energy



Chemistry in the dining room



Chemistry of ionising radiation



Nomenclature in chemistry



The prevalence of logarithmic scales



Use of phase diagrams



Lead pottery glazes



Child poisoning



Drug taking data - Australian Bureau of Statistics 1995



Top 50 pharmaceutical benefits prescriptions 1995-1996



The entropy game



Approved additive numbers



Chemicals available in the marketplace


Glossary


Index