Chemistry in the Marketplace

Name: Chemistry in the Marketplace
Brand: NewSouth Books
SKU: 9781486303328
Price: 163.0 NZD
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By Ben Selinger and Russell Barrow

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Chemistry in the Marketplace explores the chemistry behind everyday products, from food to cosmetics and plastics. Authors Ben Selinger and Russell Barrow clarify complex scientific concepts with fresh explanations and engaging anecdotes, helping readers discern real risks from marketing myths. This sixth edition covers chemicals in the home, garden, and broader environment, offering insights that could even help save money.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Ideal for students, educators, and curious readers interested in the practical chemistry of everyday products and informed consumer choices.

Chemicals are everywhere. Many are natural and safe, others synthetic and dangerous. Or is it the other way around? Walking through the supermarket, you might ask yourself: Should I be eating organic food? Is that anti-wrinkle cream a gimmick? Is it worth buying BPA-free plastics?

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This Sixth Edition of Chemistry in the Marketplace provides fresh explanations, fascinating facts and funny anecdotes about the serious science in the products we buy and the resources we use. With chapters on the chemistry found in different parts of our home, in the backyard and in the world around us, Ben Selinger and Russell Barrow explain how things work, where marketing can be deceptive and what risks you should really be concerned about—this book might even save you some money!

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Janet Mitchell, School Science Review: “This is a wide-ranging, detailed and authoritative text, presented clearly and attractively with numerous images, tables and diagrams. It is good to see a text that has retained the essential chemistry and has not been oversimplified for the popular science market.”

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781486303328

Publisher: CSIRO Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2017

Country: Australia

Imprint: CSIRO Publishing

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 245.0mm

Weight: 1302g

Pages: 544

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Ben Selinger Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Russell Barrow

About the Author

Ben Selinger AM is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University. His extracurricular activities have included consumer protection, regulating Australia’s chemicals, and providing features on science on talk-back radio and for the Canberra Times. He was awarded a Eureka Prize for Science Communication by the Australian Museum.

Russell Barrow is an Associate Professor in the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University. He researches the roles of chemicals in natural systems, including chemicals involved in ecological processes such as plant pollination and the chemistry of compounds from mushrooms that are used traditionally in Papua New Guinea.