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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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Sam Kean
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 9,978 ratings
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The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
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4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 774 ratings
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 1,145 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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Deborah Blum
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 7,038 ratings
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The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Uncle Tungsten
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 1,956 ratings
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Radar, Hula Hoops, and Playful Pigs: 67 Digestible Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life
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Joe Schwarcz
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 559 ratings
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The Chemical History of a Candle
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3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 83,728 ratings
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The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
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4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 430 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 5,908 ratings
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A Chemical History Of A Candle
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home - But Probably Shouldn't
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4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements
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John Emsley
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison
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John Emsley
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 181 ratings
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The Invention of Air
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 1,368 ratings
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Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element
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3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Mendeleyev's Dream
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Paul Strathern
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 536 ratings
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What Einstein Told His Cook 2: The Sequel: Further Adventures in Kitchen Science
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Robert L. Wolke
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 234 ratings
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General Chemistry
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
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Alexander Shulgin
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 674 ratings
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The Diamond Makers
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4.78 of 5 stars 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Elements of Chemistry
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Tihkal: The Continuation
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Alexander Shulgin
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Cosmochemistry
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0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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A New System of Chemical Philosophy
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John Dalton
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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DNA: The Secret of Life
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 615 ratings
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Astrochemistry: From Astronomy to Astrobiology
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 17,150 ratings
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Concerning the Nature of Things - Illustrated
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William Bragg
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Stellar Alchemy: The Celestial Origin of Atoms
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Michel Cassé
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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An Ocean Of Air: A Natural History Of The Atmosphere
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Gabrielle Walker
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 128 ratings
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The Sceptical Chymist
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture
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Robert Bruce Thompson
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Astrobiology: A Brief Introduction
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3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 28 ratings
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What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 1,370 ratings
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That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles: 62 All-New Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life
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Joe Schwarcz
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 90 ratings
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A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 862 ratings
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The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
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Ray Kurzweil
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 3,136 ratings
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The Periodic Table
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Primo Levi
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 3,117 ratings
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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Richard Holmes
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 3,054 ratings
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World
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Simon Garfield
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 544 ratings
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Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy
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Seth Fletcher
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Electric Life of Michael Faraday
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Alan Hirshfeld
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Chemistry of Space
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution
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Madison Smartt Bell
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
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Doug Macdougall
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Joy of Chemistry: The Amazing Science of Familiar Things
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Cathy Cobb
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Four Laws That Drive the Universe
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Crime Scene Chemistry for the Armchair Sleuth
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Cathy Cobb
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry
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3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
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Lauren Redniss
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 1,805 ratings
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Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
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Barbara Goldsmith
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 603 ratings
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Nobel Lectures in Chemistry (Nobel lectures)
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0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Molecules of Murder: Criminal Molecules and Classic Cases
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Shocking History Of Phosphorus: A Biography Of The Devil's Element
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John Emsley
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life
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John Emsley
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Genie in the Bottle: 67 All-New Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life
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Joe Schwarcz
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Joy of Chemistry: The Amazing Science of Familiar Things
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Cathy Cobb
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements
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Philip Ball
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Stories of the Invisible: A Guided Tour of Molecules
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Philip Ball
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Vanity, Vitality, and Virility: The Science Behind the Products You Love to Buy
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John Emsley
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Hydrogen: The Essential Element
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John S. Rigden
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Why There's Antifreeze in Your Toothpaste: The Chemistry of Household Ingredients
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3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 43 ratings
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From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story
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Arthur Greenberg
4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry
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Patrick Coffey
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Investigating Chemistry: A Forensic Science Perspective
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Matthew Johll
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey Into The Land Of The Chemical Elements
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Atkins' Molecules
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Green Flame: Surviving Government Secrecy
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Last Sorcerers: The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table
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3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Scent and Chemistry: The Molecular World of Odors
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The Case of the Poisonous Socks: Tales from Chemistry
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William H Brock
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Air: Our Planet's Ailing Atmosphere
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ReAction!: Chemistry in the Movies
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2.5 of 5 stars 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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What's Cooking in Chemistry: How Leading Chemists Succeed in the Kitchen
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Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal About Earth History
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4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Soap, Science, and Flat-Screen TVs: A History of Liquid Crystals
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Is Arsenic an Aphrodisiac?: The Sociochemistry of an Element
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Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science
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3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Blue: The History of a Color
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Bittersweet: The Story of Sugar
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Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 968 ratings
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Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 340 ratings
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The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War
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