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  title info:
    title: Elegant solutions
    sub title: ten beautiful experiments in chemistry
  name:
    name part: Ball, Philip
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vii, 212 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Devising and performing a scientific experiment is an art, and it is common to hear scientists talk about the 'beauty' of an experiment. What does this mean in chemistry, the experimental science par excellence? And what are the most beautiful chemical experiments of all time? This book offers ten suggestions for where beauty might reside in experimental chemistry. In some cases the beauty lies in the clarity of conception; sometimes it is a feature of the instrumental design. But for chemistry, there can also be a unique beauty in the way atoms are put together to make new molecules, substances not known in nature. The ten experiments described here offer a window into the way that chemists think and work, and how what they do affects the rest of science and the wider world. This book aims to stimulate the reader to think anew about some of the relationships and differences between science and art, and to challenge some of the common notions about particular 'famous experiments'. Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry is accessible to all readers, including those without a scientific background and can provide an unusual point of entry into some of the basic concepts of chemistry. Phillip Ball is a renowned, prolific, award winning science writer.
  table of contents: What is an experiment? What is beauty? -- Asking questions of nature -- How does your garden grow? -- An element compounded -- New light -- Radiation explained -- The elements came in one by one -- The chemical theatre -- Posing new questions -- Molecules take shape -- Myths and romances -- Life and how to make it -- Not so noble -- The art of making things -- Nature rebuilt -- Plato's molecules -- Chemical aesthetics.
  target audience: adult
  note: Philip Ball.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-204) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
    topic: Experiments
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
    topic: Experiments
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Chemistry
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Science
  classification: QD43 .B35 2005eb
  classification: 540.78
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Elegant solutions
    name:
      name part: Ball, Philip, 1962-
    origin info:
      publisher: Cambridge, UK : Royal Society of Chemistry, ©2005
    identifier: (DLC) 2006494658
    identifier: (OCoLC)60838141
  identifier: 1847552609
  identifier: 9781847552600
  identifier: 0854046747
  identifier: 9780854046744
  identifier: 10.1039/9781847552600 Royal Society of Chemistry
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: UKRSC
    record creation date: 080626
    record change date: 20210728140441.0
    record identifier: in00004356916
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng