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  title info:
    title: Chain reaction
    sub title: how chemistry shapes us and our world
  name:
    name part: Uchegbu, Ijeoma F.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    edition: First US edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 306 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "By one of the world's leading chemists, an entertaining and revealing tour of the chemical bonds that shape our everyday lives and provide the infrastructure for our chaotic world."--Amazon.
  table of contents: Introduction: Chemistry is everywhere and everywhere is chemistry -- Our bodies: Why you and I are walking chemical reactions -- Food: Breaking down the stuff on our plates -- Cosmetics: How chemistry's colours can change how we look and feel -- Clothing and jewellery: The art and science of draping, decorating, shielding and sparkling -- Plastics: Why we are hopelessly hooked on the plastic chemical bond -- Pollutants: The bits of chemistry we do not want -- Glue: The sticky chemistry that holds us together -- Buildings: The materials that hold up our homes -- Medicines: Chemistry at the edge of life -- The end: The chemistry of death and dying -- Epilogue: Why chemistry always matters.
  target audience: adult
  note: Ijeoma Uchegbu.
  note: Originally published in Great Britian in 2026 by Hodder Press.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Biochemistry
    genre: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Human body
    topic: Composition
    genre: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
    genre: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Biochimie
    genre: Ouvrages de vulgarisation
  subject:
    topic: Composition corporelle
    genre: Ouvrages de vulgarisation
  subject:
    topic: Chimie
    genre: Ouvrages de vulgarisation
  classification: QD35 .U244 2026
  classification: 572
  identifier: 9780063394629
  identifier: 0063394626
  record info:
    record content source: HQD
    record creation date: 260413
    record change date: 20260622123821.4
    record identifier: in00005789240
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng