9781579127916

Theo Gray's Mad Science

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9781579127916

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Overview

Author of the best-selling book The Elements Theodore Gray demonstrates essential scientific principles through thrilling daredevil experiments.

In Mad Science, Theodore Gray launches a toy rocket using the energy released from an Oreo cookie, ignites a phosphorus sun by suspending half a gram of white phosphorus in a globe filled with pure oxygen and creates a homemade hot tub by adding 500 pounds of quicklime to water. These are just a few of the 54 experiments included in this astonishing book that demonstrates essential scientific principles in ways you were likely never exposed to in school.

Every experiment in Mad Science is accompanied by full-color photographs that provide a front-row seat to rarely seen chemical reactions and glorious subatomic activity. To further enhance the hands-on experience, Gray includes step-by-step instructions for nearly every experiment. Following all of the safety guidelines, readers can even re-create some of the experiments in the book.

Mad Science is the perfect book for anyone fascinated by all things chemical, electrical, or explosive, and who loves a vicarious thrill.

ISBN-13

9781579127916

ISBN-10

1579127916

Weight

2.45 Pounds

Dimensions

9.38 x 1.00 x 10.38 In

List Price

$24.95

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

240 pages

Publisher

Black Dog & Leventhal

Published On

2009-03-25



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