Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Not 17 buttons, mind you

Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
by Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson

Got my chemistry fix for the month!  

It starts out with a refresher course in organic chemistry and the notation used to describe molecules, then jumps into the seventeen molecules.  How they chose the seventeen is anyone's guess, but it must have been a lot of fun.  Dye, opium, silk--I don't think of silk as a molecule, but apparently it is.  Salt, of course.  But oleic acid?  Isoprene? 

Jump in for a world--literally--of fun.  Science fun.

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