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Loading... Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)by Peter Atkins, pw atkins
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. One hour revisiting valence, bonds, organic compounds, and the periodic table I bought this on impulse from a used book store in Annapolis. Peter Atkins writes very clearly, and I have read his popular account of the elements "The Periodic Kingdom" and when I was a college senior in chemistry, used his "Molecular Quantum Mechanics" as a text. This book was a whetting of my familiar appetite for chemistry. no reviews | add a review
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Most people remember chemistry from their schooldays as a subject that was largely incomprehensible, fact-rich but understanding-poor, smelly, and so far removed from the real world of events and pleasures that there seemed little point, except for the most introverted, in coming to terms with its grubby concepts, spells, recipes, and rules. Peter Atkins wants to change all that. In What is Chemistry? he encourages us to look at chemistry anew, through a chemist's eyes, to understand its central concepts and to see how it contributes not only towards our material comfort, but also to human cul No library descriptions found. |
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There was pollution from the new chemical dyes, though, although ‘green chemistry’ tries to minimize disruption to the environment from chemicals. And of course, even before I read this book I had to laugh (though not with mirth) at the ad for shoes from “all natural” materials, made from animals, factory farmed, most like, and doomed to be slaughtered as though they’d done something wrong.
It’s not always easy or obvious reconciling chemistry and science-and-technology, with ecology and science-and-nature, but of course, the thing will have to be done for us to be happy in the future.