Chemistry 101

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - Fire, Smoke, and Magic
3. Chapter Two - The Gold, the Dream, and the Stone
4. Chapter Three - Weigh It or It Didn’t Happen
5. Chapter Four - What Is Stuff Made Of?
6. Chapter Five - Mendeleev’s Masterpiece
7. Chapter Six - Acids, Bases, and Blown-Off Eyebrows
8. Chapter Seven - Molecules and the Shape of Life
9. Chapter Eight - Chemistry Goes Atomic
10. Chapter Nine - The Bomb and the Fallout
11. Chapter Ten - Chemistry of Life
12. Chapter Eleven - Synthetic Everything
13. Chapter Twelve - The Future Table
14. Chapter Thirteen - The Mirror

Excerpt

PROLOGUE BEFORE CHEMISTRY HAD a name, it was just fire and curiosity. Somebody threw something into the flames and it changed. Melted. Fizzed. Smoked. Blew up. Nobody knew why, they just knew it did. So they did it again. Not because they understood it. Because it was magic. Not card tricks and fairy dust. Real magic. The kind that turns stone into metal. Grape juice into a blackout. Stone into a blade. A handful of nothing into something that kills. The world was full of reactions, and humans were the only things dumb enough, or smart enough, to start poking them. That’s chemistry in its rawest form. Not a science. Not a subject. A vibe. A reaction. A temptation. Because the moment you...