By Larry Gonick
If you've ever suspected that "heavy water" is the name of an illicit crimson Floyd album, believed that floor pressure is an nervousness sickness, or imagined noble gasoline is the results of a heavy meal at Buckingham Palace, then you definately want The comic strip consultant to Chemistry to set you at the highway to chemical literacy.
You need not be a scientist to understand those and lots of different complicated principles, simply because The sketch consultant to Chemistry explains all of them: the heritage and fundamentals of chemistry, atomic thought, combustion, solubility, response stoichiometry, the mole, entropy, and masses more—all defined in basic, transparent, and convinced, humorous illustrations. Chemistry isn't the same!
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