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Classic guide provides intriguing entertainment for readers while elucidating sound scientific principles. More than 100 unusual stunts demonstrate cold fire, dust explosions, a nylon rope trick, a disappearing beaker, a glass dissolving in water, and much more. Step-by-step instructions also stress safety precautions. Second edition, revised by E. Winston Grundmeier.
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Amazing Experiments ...that you can't do........2007-05-12
This book reminds me of how we've gone a society of educational discovers to one that irrationally sees harm in a simple chemistry set.
There are experiments that I've heard told and retold, some of which I seriously attributed to exaggeration. For instance, a glass beaker submerged in a liquid that has the same refractive index as glass, rendering the beaker completely invisible. Or, another, volumes of smoke made as if by magic.
It turns out they're all in here! Don't let the physical size fool you, because this book is chalked full of some of the most amazing and impressive chemistry experiments you've ever seen.
The problem, however, is that the typical home reader won't be able to get their hands on these chemicals anymore. So while you can read about them, you can't conduct the experiments yourself.
About the only people who'd get practical benefit out of this book would be college chemistry professors who want to lure students into the profession. This would be an impressive way to do it.
Proceed with Caution.......2005-10-31
This book gives lots of chemical demonstration ideas. However, some are entirely too dangerous to do. You must use a lot of common sense when considering doing any of these demonstrations. Some are not safe at all. Mercury and CCl4 are EPA regulated. It's not advisable to put ethanol in your mouth to spit out in front of students... This only demonstrates bad lab techniques. Make sure you do the first experiment in the book outside or in a fume hood. It releases a strong odor and an acid vapor. Definitely not something you want your students breathing!
Not organic but entertaining!.......2005-09-10
Each experiment first explains the "action" or the effect intended to produce. Secondly, necessary elements are listed along with their appropriate quantities. Thirdly, a very fortunate addendum to each experiment explains why the reaction occurred and how it did. Finally, most experiements are augmented by a primitive diagram, whose descriptive efforts vary according the action(s) of the chemist, but nevertheless aid the reader with some significance to visualize where certain items should be oriented.
Anyone interested in this book will understand it is not for anarchy or extremely plexiform experiments to uncover the human genome. Mad scientists, this book is unfortunately not for you, but anyone intrigued by paradoxical chemical experiments, such as fire submerged in water, a burning bush that is not consumed by its flames, and other such fascinating elements, will be pleased with its contents.
These experiments usually do not require manifold ingredients so they are ideal for high-school chemistry classes, introductory college chemistry, or entertainment during a meal. A waiter who can perform such legerdemain at events will not remain a waiter long, and those of you who are addicted to gambling and teasing friends certain things are impossible will immediately recognize the value of this book.
I have rated this book 4-star primarily because the majority of the experiments are prosaic or have no genuine purpose to belong the the publishment. However, those experiments that really are "chemical magic" scintillate like stars amid the black heavens, illuminating their observers and imparting them joy at a further comprehension of experimental chemistry.
Danger, Will Robinson .......2005-07-16
This text is a lot of fun, a rapid-fire compilation of visually interesting experiments. *However* it is out-of-date on safety. Despite a recent revision the text appears unaware of the great danger posed by materials such as carbon tetrachloride (a chemical which has since the 60's been all but banned), mercury, benzene, phosphorous, thermite, etc. To say "be careful" is not enough when talking to a lay audience. Please be cautious, the experiments may sound thrilling but the harm can be nasty and permanent.
Ford's Chemical Magic: When Science Was Fun.......2005-05-06
This is truly a great and extremely fun book, especially for the curious kid or adult who wants to do exciting stuff with chemicals and glassware. I did every experiment in this book as a kid, some dozens of times, but recommend adult supervision for some of the experiments. In today's dummied down, Lawyer stiffled society it's nice to know that there are actually still books around that have experiments that are as fun as they are politically incorrect. All kids should be exposed to the fun of making fireworks, playing with mineral acids and white phosphorus, oxidizers, and burning metals if they can find the materials and if they have appropriate supervision. It's the real way to become introduced to non watered-down chemistry; this book has the really FUN experiments that will, unlike almost all of the prevailing experimemts in the prevailing contemporary books, keep kids from thinking that science is a complete bore. (Tri ess Sciences in Glendale, CA sells a lot of these reagents to adults). This is a book from an exciting past era, long gone now, where there was a lot of real freedom to really experiment and learn in an environment free of hyper-legal and trumped up anti chemical sentiment. Get it and you'll see, but be careful with white phosphorus solutions of carbon disulfide. When the boring books on chemistry are replaced by great books like this, people will return to science. Have fun.
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What do the following things have in common: the space shuttle, cosmetics, color TVs, concrete, and kayaks? Ceramics! All these items are made of or include ceramics, the most common and diverse of all materials - yet most of us would be surprised at its variety of uses. You will be amazed by how ceramics make possible such diverse products as cellular phones, many of your favorite sporting goods, radio, television, and lasers. You will be surprised by how ceramics are used in medicine for cancer treatments and restoring hearing, in our cars, and even in some cosmetics. This book introduces readers to the many exciting applications of ceramics. By using simplified technical explanations, it answers the question: How do ceramics improve your everyday life? It describes how the ceramic material functions, and why it is superior to other materials, while teaching key scientific concepts like atomic structure, color, and the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Optical Emission Lines of the Elements
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A unique CD-ROM and print package comprising a fully searchable electronic database of emission lines for nearly 90 elements and a practical reference manual.
Breaking away from the traditional compendia of emission lines, the database has been compiled using an algorithm which calculated all the electric-dipole emission lines for each element based on their electronic structure. Therefore this product contains wavelengths for lines that are very weak and only observable under optimum conditions. There is no detection limit, and the programme allows the user to adjust parameters to match the general characteristics of their source and spectrometer, making this a highly authoritative resource.
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The on-line column preconcentration technique with inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) has been developed using a cartridge filled with octadecyl silica modified by l-(2-pyridylazo) 2-naphtol (PAN). The aim of this method was to determine some rare earth elements (REEs) (Ce, Dy, La, Sm, and Y) and uranium in water samples. Sample solutions were passed through the C"1"8-modified column. The adsorbed cations were subsequently eluted from the column and transferred into the plasma with nitric acid solution for simultaneous determination of them. Sample pH, amount of PAN as a complexing agent, sampling and eluting flowrates and concentration of the eluent were optimized. Detection limits based on three times of standard deviations of blank by 10 replicates were in the range of 11ngl^-^1 for Dy to 69ngl^-^1 for U. Sample throughput was 10 samplesh^-^1. The proposed method was applied to determine REEs in natural water samples. Recoveries of the REEs from natural water samples were between 95 and 106% with percent relative standard deviation (%R.S.D.) of 1.0-7.9%.
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A novel type of interface for gas removal has been developed for coupling a high-temperature/high-pressure online flow digestion system to an ICP spectrometry instrument. It consists of a porous polypropylene tube with an inner rod made of PEEK which causes the formation of a thin film (100@mm) of liquid at the inner surface of the porous tube, thereby considerably increasing the ratio of gas exchange area to liquid volume and simultaneously decreasing the dead volume. Thus very efficient removal of the gaseous reaction products, such as CO"2 and NO"x, which are known to affect the ICP stability, was achieved. Even at high flow rates and with a high carbon content in the samples more than 99% of the gases were removed. Applying ICP-OES detection excellent recoveries were obtained for most elements except for Sb, Ag and Ga. Good agreement between certified and measured values was obtained for online determinations of elements in various biological and environmental standard reference materials. Low standard deviation and detection limits in the lower @mg/g range were found. This new tube interface combines low costs with robust properties, compact design and ease of handling.
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The concept of electron correlation is fundamental to condensed matter physics, playing an important role in systems including high temperature superconductors, heavy fermions, manganite compounds with colossal magnetoresistance, transition metal compounds with metal-insulator transitions, and mesoscopic systems like quantum dots and carbon nanotubes.
The dialogue between experimentalists and theoreticians presented here is an assessment of our current understanding of the field; one that sets the agenda for future work.
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Barbaraannette Quinn loved her husband, Bobby, right up until the day he got in his truck,left their home in Cold Rock, Minnesota, and never returned. She has waited six years for him to walk back through her door, and now that she has hit the Powerball lottery, she's willing to give a million dollars to anyone who can make that happen.
Bobby and his girlfriend, Phlox, decide that she will turn him in, collect the million bucks, and then they'll both hightail it back to Arizona to live happily ever after. Unfortunately, everybody wants a piece of Bobby -- including a pair of hulking good ole boys, who figure Bobby owes them, and a sociopathic pretty boy freshout of St. Cloud Correctional, who notices that Barbaraannette's offer doesn't require that Bobby arrive alive. Toss in a shy marathon-running banker, a lovestruck humanities professor, and Barbaraannette's kleptomaniac mother, and things start getting a little hot in Cold Rock.
"I've really started something, haven't I?" Barbaraannette says. What she has started is a crackpot criminal conspiracy in Pete Hautman's funniest novel yet.
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The Adventures of Barbaraanette and Bobby - Not to be missed!!.......2006-11-03
The more I read this story, the more I thought of the movie, Fargo. The plots are similar only in that a lot of unintended things occur to some very interesting characters, but it had the same feeling.
Barbaraannette Quinn is Mrs. Million. In fact, as the newest winner of the Minnesota Powerball lottery she is nearly Mrs. Ten Million. One of three sisters, all of whom live in Cold Rock, Minnesota, B.A has decided to use some of the winnings from the lottery to find her missing husband. He departed town on a sudden fishing trip six years ago with some money he had taken from two friends who expected him to use it in a real estate deal. For some reason Barbaraannette cannot shake his memory and offers a reward of one million dollars to whomever can bring her husband home.
That's when the fun begins. Bobby has found his way to Tucson selling cowboy boots at Wally Wenger's Westernwear Warehouse and has set up housekeeping with Phlox, a dealer at the Desert Diamond Casino. They see the news story of B.A. making the offer and before too much dust settles they are on their way to Minnesota with plans to acccept the reward.
A million gets everyone's attention in Cold Rock and as Phlox and Bobby arrive there, other forces enter the story and Bobby is kidnapped by a very odd couple who plan to claim the reward. Those whom he swindled six years before are aware of his presense and have their own ideas about the matter. B.A. oldest sister, Mary Beth thinks the whole idea is ridiculous and is trying to cancel the whole reward idea. Add to that B.A.'s Alzheimer afflicted mother who keeps escaping from her nursing home, a local banker who has loved B.A. since high school and a few other assorted folks from Cold Rock and you have one heckuva entertaining book.
Hauptman has a way with words and descriptions and he brings it all to bear in Mrs. Million. It would make a fun movie.
The professor has a mean streak.......2002-03-31
Sam O'Gara appears in most of Hautman's novels. In this one he gets a bare mention. He's the father of Barbaraannette Quinn, who wins the lottery and decides to spend a million of it trying to win her husband Bobby back. He absconded six years before and she's never gotten over the good-looking devil.
Bobby, along with his girlfriend, Phlox, sees her offer on TV. They decide to claim the reward and then split, which strains credulity because people are looking for Bobby in Cold Rock, Minnesota. You see, before he left, he conned these two guys out of money to start a dude ranch, and he runs into them as soon as he sets foot in Cold Rock. Suddenly everybody wants the million dollars and Bobby changes hands more often than the Hope diamond.
There are a lot of quirky characters in MRS. MILLION, but probably the most interesting one is the college professor, Andre Gideon, who just happens to be in the right place (or wrong, depending upon how you look at it). He's more interested in JJ Morrow, another con man, who sends letters to celebrities to mooch money off of them. Gideon is unique because Hautman is working against type. Gideon looks about as violent as Shirley Temple, but he's got a mean streak as long as the English Chunnel.
There's a lot of internal monologue in this novel, which slows down the pace, but it speeds up when Barbaraanette collects the million in cash from her marathon-running banker, who just happens to have loved her forever. The funniest part is how often the money changes hands. You'll start counting heads when the money disappears. Everybody seems to be accounted for.
The eventual resolution is sidesplitting.
Decent, But He's Done Better.......2001-02-08
As in his previous books, Drawing Dead and the excellent The Mortal Nuts, Hautman brings Carl Hiassan's tradition of wild and wacky characters to small-town Minnesota. When a 30ish single woman wins the Powerball lottery, she offers $1,000,000 for the return of her missing no-good husband, who disappeared six years ago. This is catalyst for shady shenanigans as he and his girlfriend head back to collect the money. Of course there are other people seeking to claim the reward themselves, etc... Everything ends true to formula, and it doesn't have quite the sharp bite that his other books do.
Quirky, lighthearted, and very entertaining.......2000-09-07
If you've read your way through Carl Hiaissen, Elmore Leonard, and James W. Hall but haven't discovered Pete Hautman, "Mrs. Million" is a great place to start. Reviewers who were expecting big action or complex plotting in this book were probably disappointed, but only because they missed the point. Hautman's work is very easy to escape into because it IS odd-ball. It doesn't have to make sense!
The characters in this book, like in those in "Short Money," are very offbeat, but immensely likeable. Except for the villains, of course, who are equally offbeat but easy to despise. But like Hiaissen's villains, they always get what's coming to them.
I've only read two of Hautman's books, but I'm using an Amazon gift certificate to stock up (and then fortify my local library). Keep up the good work, Mr. Hautman.
wacky.......2000-07-29
The first few pages drew me into this book very quickly. The cast of quirky characters makes this a funny story. Barbarannette, (nicknamed Barbie) whose husband, Bobby Quinn, had run off 6 years ago. Now that Barbie has won the lottery and her winnings totaled 8.9 million dollars. She decides to put up a million dollars reward for the safe return of her husband Bobby. Big mistake. At the same time that Barbie was on TV putting up the reward, Bobby is sitting in Tucson AZ watching TV with his girl friend. They decide to pack their bags and go claim the reward for themselves. There are 2 other people who also want the money, Bobby's greedy girlfriend and a crazy bounty hunter. The book goes through their misadventures, in the attempt to try and claim the million dollars for themselves. Barbie's family is a wee bit wacky but they have Barbie's best interest at heart. Be prepared for a surprise end. I found it to be a well, written, lighthearted read that held my attention. A good read for a lazy day.
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