It's a very chemical world, and some of it involves explosive results, as some students will be happy to discover in Bill Nye the Science Guy: Chemical Reactions. Bill Nye continues his popular series of science programs that presents scientific concepts in an entertaining way. His methods have won him many awards, and the loyalty of educators, who admire how he can hold the attention of young students. In this episode, Nye explains how everything is made of chemicals, and gives the signs that indicate a chemical reaction is occurring.
This book exposes the traditional view that psychiatric drugs correct chemical imbalances as a dangerous fraud. It traces the emergence of this view and the way it supported the vested interests of the psychiatric profession, the pharmaceutical industry and the modern state. Instead it is proposed that psychiatric drugs 'work' by creating abnormal brain states, which are often unpleasant and impair normal intellectual and emotional functions along with other harmful consequences.
Concise and authoritative, Clinical Toxicology: Principles and Mechanisms examines the complex interactions associated with clinical toxicological events and chemical exposure or drug administration. The author places special emphasis on signs and symptoms of diseases and pathology caused by toxins and clinical drugs.
One of the most familiar features of any high-school chemistry lab
is the Periodic Table of Elements. Elegant, informative, useful to any
student in the lab - the Periodic Table neatly summarizes our
scientific knowledge of the chemical elements from hydrogen to uranium
and beyond - atomic number, atomic weight, isotopes, and more. But how
did scientists discover all of these features of the elements? How did
the Periodic Table come to be? And, even more basically, how did the
concept of the chemical element come to dominate how scientists
understand chemistry?
This book shows readers the answers to these and
other questions regarding the scientific understanding of matter. The
Chemical Element, a volume in the Greenwood Guides to Great Ideas in
Science, traces the history of this tremendously powerful concept from
the ancient philosophers to the present day.
The Story of Early Chemistry
later published under the title
Story of Alchemy and Early Chemistry
by John Maxson Stillman
Originally published under the title The Story of Early Chemistry. Tells the story of the development of chemical knowledge and science, from the beginning of time to the end of the 18th century. Contents: practical chemistry of the ancients; earliest chemical manuscripts; theories of the ancients of matter and its changes; early alchemists; chemical knowledge of the Middle Ages; chemistry in the 13th century; chemistry of the 14th and 15th centuries; progressive 16th century; chemical currents in the 16th century; chemistry of the 16th century; the 18th century, rise and fall of the Phlogiston theory; development of pneumatic chemistry in the 18th century; early ideas of chemical affinity; Lavoisier and the chemical revolution.
