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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
B K Selinger |
| ISBN: | 1865082899 9781865082899 |
| OCLC Number: | 48979471 |
| Description: | 207 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Machine generated contents note: Health -- Why "Genes 'r' Us" -- Why Mandrake makes magic -- Why say NO for sex? -- Antibiotic resistance : whose fault? -- Adrien asks : is it food, drug or poison? -- For king, country and chemical! -- How well do you know your cupboard's chemicals? -- Do real rotters have a sense of humus? -- Food -- Can you face science at breakfast? -- When do you reach flashpoint? -- Distilling the essence-why use steam? -- Forget the fags-cooking oil fumes can give you -- cancer! -- Guess why bananas gassed in their pyjamas taste -- ghastly? -- Anti-what? It can't be the oxygen we breathe! -- Which pills of vitamin E, if any? -- Veggie out-before they get you first! -- What's so special about coffee? -- So what if your pots and pans dissolve in the puree -- Water -- Why are wet T-shirts so educational? -- Dissolving into each other-when and why? -- What's really in the water? -- Fluoride in the water, a good idea? -- What can you learn by osmosis? -- Why superslurpers slurp -- Why damp clothes iron better -- Metals -- Aluminium and Alzheimer's disease-a connection? -- How magnesium metal can sharpen your mind and -- a pencil -- Chrome sweet chrome -- Why some metals are foiled -- Cosmetics -- Lipsticks, but don't swallow -- Perfumes-are you being conned? -- Hair-raising physics! -- Can armpits hide more than watermelons? -- Can you test a sunscreen in your urine? -- Are sunplastics trustworthy? -- In and out of the office -- Why leave condoms on the copier -- Do you really know the fax? -- Bonfires-is it safe to breathe outside? -- Hayfever-is it safe to breathe inside? -- Out to dinner-all froth and bubbles -- How stable is your foam? -- Where are bubbles born? -- Serious stuff -- Speciation and oxidation number -- Borrowed time -- Hard and soft in chemistry -- Long and short-Fourier transforms -- Empathy with entropy -- Radioactivity revisited. |
| Responsibility: | Ben Selinger. |
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