The chemistry book
"From atoms and fluorescent pigments to sulfa drug synthesis and buckyballs, this lush and authoritative chronology presents 250 milestones in the world of chemistry. As the "central science" that bridges biology and physics, chemistry plays an important role in countless medical and technological advances. Covering entertaining stories and unexpected applications, chemist and journalist Derek B. Lowe traces the most important--and surprising--chemical discoveries"--Amazon.
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What Hacker News says
- If your goal is to actually learn chemistry, I would recommend textbooks. I'm not a chemist myself so I can't give a good recommend.
If your goal is to learn somechemistry while being entertained, https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd... is a classic, and https://www.amazon.com/Chemistry-Book-Gunpowder-Graphene-Mil... is by the author of the blog post that this is about.
- Chemistry: I have only started it, but knowing the author and from the few pages I could yet read I have good reasons to believe that the following will fit:
Lowe, Derek B. (2016). The Chemistry Book: From Gunpowder to Graphene, 250 Milestones in the History of Chemistry.
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