What Is Chemistry?

by Peter Atkins

Book Overview

Most people remember chemistry from their schooldays as a subject that was largely incomprehensible. For many the topic was seen as being fact-rich but understanding-poor, smelly, and so far removed from the real world of events and pleasures that there seemed little point, except for the most introverted, in coming to terms with its grubby concepts, spells, recipes, and rules.

Peter Atkins wants to change all that. In What is Chemistry? he...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199683980
• ISBN13: 9780199683987
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.8"