Reactions: The Private Life of Atoms

by Peter Atkins

Book Overview

Illustrated with remarkable new full-color images--indeed, one or more on every page--and written by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, Reactions offers a compact, pain-free tour of the inner workings of chemistry.

Reactions begins with the chemical formula almost everyone knows--the formula for water, H2O--a molecule with an "almost laughably simple chemical composition." But Atkins shows that water is also rather miraculous--it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199695121
• ISBN13: 9780199695126
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"