{"product_id":"the-wonder-book-of-chemistry-paperback-1","title":"The Wonder Book of Chemistry - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFlorence Constable Bicknell\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eJean-Henri Fabre\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wondrous introduction to the world of chemistry, designed specifically for younger readers with the intention of arousing their interest in science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing everyday objects found around the house or in the local store, this book is set as a storyline in which an \"Uncle Paul\" teaches his two nephews the secrets behind building an artificial volcano; how to set metals on fire; the flammable properties of water; how to make a fire hotter; how to make soap bubbles rise; how to make invisible ink; the science behind effervescent wines, ciders, and beer; how plants feed on carbon, water, and air-and much, much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the translator's preface: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The personal, biographical interest of the book is not to be overlooked. The boys Jules and Emile are the author's own children; faithfully portrayed even to the names they bear. In his captivating fashion the man of vast learning makes himself at once teacher and comrade to his young hearers, and we learn that 'his chemistry lessons especially had a great success.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With apparatus of his own devising and of the simplest kind he could perform a host of elementary experiments, the apparatus as a rule consisting of the most ordinary materials, such as a common flask or bottle, an old mustard-pot, a tumbler, a goose-quill or a pipe-stem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A series of astonishing phenomena amazed their wondering eyes. He made them see, touch, taste, handle, and smell, and always 'the hand assisted the word, ' always 'the example accompanied the precept, ' for no one more fully valued the profound maxim, so neglected and misunderstood, that 'to see is to know.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Though living creatures necessarily claimed the naturalist's first affections, he nonetheless 'animates even the simple elementary bodies, celebrating the marvelous activities of the air, the violence of chlorin, the metamorphoses of carbon, the miraculous bridals of phosphorus, ' and the 'splendors which accompany the birth of a drop of water.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/p\u003eTranslator's Preface\u003cbr\u003eChapter I: Introduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter II: Mixing and Combining\u003cbr\u003eChapter III: The Slice of Toast\u003cbr\u003eChapter IV: Simple Substances\u003cbr\u003eChapter V: Compound Substances\u003cbr\u003eChapter VI: Experiments with the Breath\u003cbr\u003eChapter VII: Experiments with Air\u003cbr\u003eChapter VIII: Further Experiments with Air\u003cbr\u003eChapter IX: The Two Sparrows\u003cbr\u003eChapter X: Burning Phosphorus\u003cbr\u003eChapter XI: Burning Metals\u003cbr\u003eChapter XII: Salts\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIII: A Talk on Tools\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIV: Oxygen\u003cbr\u003eChapter XV: Air and Combustion\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVI: Rust\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVII: At the Blacksmith's\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVIII: Hydrogen\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIX: A Drop of Water\u003cbr\u003eChapter XX: A Piece of Chalk\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXI: Carbonic-Acid Gas\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXII: Different Kinds of Water\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXIII: Plants at Work\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXIV: Sulphur\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXV: Chlorin\u003cbr\u003eChapter XXVI: Nitrogen Compounds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote: This is not a \"scan\" copy but has been completely reset.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 260\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47415934877874,"sku":"9781503063587","price":21.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/758515021b500a46c1341be8d07490c6.webp?v=1778392086","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-wonder-book-of-chemistry-paperback-1","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}