The boy chemist

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This book is from the golden age of accessibility to chemistry. The age of coal was changing to the world of oil, and alchemy was real - and all girls and boys could be a Thomas Alva Edison or a George Washington Carver, a Madam Marie Curie or (in our dreams - just be OURSELVES and be) famous and having way too much fun. This and the "Golden Book of Chemistry" made MANY scientists, and careers, and created understanding on the part of those who played but did not obsess. However, these two books are to use and to obsess over. Fun was NEVER so dangerous - JUST as it should be. Learning was NEVER so thorough. Learning was never so easy. Great for adults, too. Take a serious magic journey into bad-ass chemistry with your child (I personally recommend adult involvement which is not prevention, by the way). You guys will make really nasty messes, and cool reactions, and break things. You may cut a finger or two, burn a table and otherwise piss off your mother or father. This stuff is really cool for mothers to get into too. Just DO it!!!!! Absolute magic, and a creator of parent love bonds stronger than the biggest ionic or covalent bond you can think of. Serious involvement only, though. No partial attention please, as I quote some of the substances generated and used: Acetic acid, nitric and sulfuric acids, hydrochloric acid, finely powdered active acids and strong bases, hydrogen and oxygen, using chemical dissociation and electrical decomposition, burning sodium, lithium, potassium metals, using phosphorus experimentally, heating and melting glass and using fla…

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