num_pages: 392
description: Images and text capture the astonishing beauty of the chemical processes that create snowflakes bubbles flames and other wonders of nature.Chemistry is not just about microscopic atoms doing inscrutable things; it is the process that makes flowers and galaxies. We rely on it for bread-baking vegetable-growing and producing the materials of daily life. In stunning images and illuminating text this book captures chemistry as it unfolds. Using such techniques as microphotography time-lapse photography and infrared thermal imaging The Beauty of Chemistry shows us how chemistry underpins the formation of snowflakes the science of champagne the colors of flowers and other wonders of nature and technology. We see the marvelous configurations of chemical gardens; the amazing transformations of evaporation distillation and precipitation; heat made visible; and more.
language: English
title: The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science
publisher: The MIT Press