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Vanity, vitality, and virility : the science behind the products you love to buy /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Emsley, John
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Chemistry, Analytic > Popular works.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Vanity : no more wrinkles!
  • Lipstick
  • Anti-aging creams : alpha-hydroxy acids (AHAs)
  • Silky smooth skin : boron nitride
  • Sunblocks, sunscreens, and instant tans
  • Liposomes
  • 2. Vitality : food for thought
  • Clarifying the fats
  • Trans fatty acids
  • Conjugated fatty acids
  • Vitamin C
  • The nitrate enigma
  • 3. Virility, sterility, and Viagra
  • Nitric oxide (NO)
  • Raising the dead : Viagra
  • Love potions and poppers
  • An element of sex : selenium
  • Diamonds are a girl's best friend
  • 4. Germs warfare
  • Killing germs
  • Hypochlorite
  • Phenols and chloro-phenols
  • Quaternary ammonium salts, 'quats'
  • Hydrogen peroxide
  • Ozone
  • Shower cleaners
  • 5. It's all in the mind
  • Depression and antidepressants
  • Prozac
  • A little light-headed : lithium therapy
  • Alzheimer's disease and aluminum
  • Treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD)
  • 6. Polymers in disguise
  • Disposable unmentionables and superabsorbent polymers (SAPs)
  • Chewing gum : polymeric hydrocarbons : 1
  • Whispering roads : polymeric hydrocarbons : 2
  • Polycarbonate
  • Postscript : chemiphobia, its causes and cure
  • Glossary.