Taking Things Apart and Putting Things Together

By John H. Woodburn

This lively, informative, and imaginatively illustrated volume sums up the vital role chemistry plays in our daily lives with easy-to-read case histories, cartoons, magnificent photographs, and illustrations. Case histories tell the fascinating stories of aluminum, insulin, penicillin, polio vaccine, anesthetics, cosmetics, plastics, rubber, gasoline, methanol, color photography, color TV, magnetic tapes, and DDT. Students, teachers, librarians, chemists, or anyone who wants to know more about chemistry's contributions will want this exciting, colorful book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0841203148
• ISBN13: 9780841203143
• Release Date: May 1976
• Publisher: American Chemical Society
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.3" x 10.8"