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Chemical processes have always been part of life. They enable our bodies to function and are the basis of countless substances and processes we take for granted. This intriguing book explores the world's natural chemistry - how we understand and exploit it. From the first use of fire people have practised chemistry to produce food and drink tan leather make dyes for clothes and cosmetics work metals and produce glass and pottery. Today chemicals help to purify our water improve agriculture and manufacture drugs synthetic fabrics and plastics. Our growing knowledge of the Earth's elements the properties of atoms and DNA and how substances interact has resulted in many new technologies products and scientific advances. With stunning demonstrations of key experiments and ideas Chemistry is a fresh and exciting introduction to the discoveries that have shaped and revolutionised our way of life.
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Dr. Ann Newmark worked as a curator, writer, and researcher at the Science Museum in London. She helped to revamp the chemistry galleries as a research assistant in the 1970s, became senior curator of the Experimental Chemistry branch in the 1980s, and was promoted to head of documentation in the 1990s. Newmark wrote the DK Eyewitness book Chemistry in 1993, using photographs of many of the museum's unique items to help illustrate the subject for young readers.
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Integrating words and pictures this is a family reference book on chemistry structured so that the individual themes of each spread make up a complete visual story and a self-contained module. On every spread there is a specially shot colour photograph of objects shown in real-life close-up detail.
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- PublisherDK ELT/Schools
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0751361348
- ISBN 13 9780751361346
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages64
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