Why the watermelon won't ripen in your armpit
Subtitle: and other science conundrums
By: Ben Selinger.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2000
Place of publication: St. Leonards, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Science -- Miscellanea -- Popular works.
Genres: Miscellanea; Popular works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Health; title: Why "Genes 'r' Us"; title: Why Mandrake makes magic; title: Why say NO for sex?; title: Antibiotic resistance : whose fault?; title: Adrien asks : is it food, drug or poison?; title: For king, country and chemical!; title: How well do you know your cupboard's chemicals?; title: Do real rotters have a sense of humus?; title: Food; title: Can you face science at breakfast?; title: When do you reach flashpoint?; title: Distilling the essence-why use steam?; title: Forget the fags-cooking oil fumes can give you; title: cancer!; title: Guess why bananas gassed in their pyjamas taste; title: ghastly?; title: Anti-what? It can't be the oxygen we breathe!; title: Which pills of vitamin E, if any?; title: Veggie out-before they get you first!; title: What's so special about coffee?; title: So what if your pots and pans dissolve in the puree; title: Water; title: Why are wet T-shirts so educational?; title: Dissolving into each other-when and why?; title: What's really in the water?; title: Fluoride in the water, a good idea?; title: What can you learn by osmosis?; title: Why superslurpers slurp; title: Why damp clothes iron better; title: Metals; title: Aluminium and Alzheimer's disease-a connection?; title: How magnesium metal can sharpen your mind and; title: a pencil; title: Chrome sweet chrome; title: Why some metals are foiled; title: Cosmetics; title: Lipsticks, but don't swallow; title: Perfumes-are you being conned?; title: Hair-raising physics!; title: Can armpits hide more than watermelons?; title: Can you test a sunscreen in your urine?; title: Are sunplastics trustworthy?; title: In and out of the office; title: Why leave condoms on the copier; title: Do you really know the fax?; title: Bonfires-is it safe to breathe outside?; title: Hayfever-is it safe to breathe inside?; title: Out to dinner-all froth and bubbles; title: How stable is your foam?; title: Where are bubbles born?; title: Serious stuff; title: Speciation and oxidation number; title: Borrowed time; title: Hard and soft in chemistry; title: Long and short-Fourier transforms; title: Empathy with entropy; title: Radioactivity revisited.