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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1143644989 Title: Perkin's perfect purple : how a boy created color with chemistry Author: Tami Lewis Brown; Debbie Loren Dunn; Francesca Sanna Publisher: Los Angeles : Disney-Hyperion, 2020. ISBN/ISSN: 9781368032841 1368032842 OCLC:1143644989

  
  

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Perkin's perfect purple : how a boy created color with chemistry

Author:	Tami Lewis Brown; Debbie Loren Dunn; Francesca Sanna
Publisher:	Los Angeles : Disney-Hyperion, 2020.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : Juvenile audience : English : First editionView all editions and formats
Summary:	Many years ago, the color purple was available only to a privileged few because the process was very complicated and expensive. Then in 1856, a boy named William Henry Perkin was testing a hypothesis about a cure for malaria and found that his experiment resulted in something else--something vivid and rare for the times: synthetic purple. Perkin, a pioneer of the modern scientific method, made numerous advances possible, including canned food and chemotherapy. But it was his creation of purple that started it all. This book is a joyous celebration of Perkin's impactful purple.--  Read more...
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Subjects	Perkin, William Henry, -- Sir, -- 1838-1907 -- Juvenile literature. Chemists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Purple -- Juvenile literature. View all subjects
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