The Beauty of Chemistry

Art, Wonder, and Science

Philip Ball, Wenting Zhu

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Massachusetts Inst of Tec
03 August 2021

The Arts: General & Reference; Mathematics & Sciences

Images and text capture the astonishing beauty of the chemical processes that create snowflakes, bubbles, flames, and other wonders of nature.

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 Chemistryshows 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.

By: Philip Ball, Wenting Zhu
Imprint: Massachusetts Inst of Tec
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 1mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780262044417
ISBN 10: 0262044412
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 03 August 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Philip Ball is the author of many critically acclaimed books of popular science, including Critical Mass- How One Thing Leads to Another, The Elements- A Very Short Introduction, and Beyond Weird- Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different. Wenting Zhu is an artist, designer, and photographer. Yan Liang is Associate Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China and the founder and producer of the educational brand Beauty of Science. He has worked as a science animator and illustrator.

Reviews for The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science

Choice 2021 Outstanding Academic Title Far from portraying a routine lab procedure, this collection showcases chemistry's excitement and aesthetic allure. -Scientific American With atomic clarity, science writer Philip Ball narrates this visual tour through the under-appreciated chemical beauty that surrounds us. -WIRED Ball's scintillating book is a paean to chemical beauty in nature and laboratories, with lavish images created by Wenting Zhu, Yan Liang and the Chinese Chemical Society. -Nature