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Better Looking, Better Living, Better Loving How Chemistry can Help You Achieve Life's Goals

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Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

25.05.2007

Verlag

Wiley-VCH

Seitenzahl

249

Maße (L/B/H)

22,3/14,9/2,7 cm

Gewicht

468 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-3-527-31863-6

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"...it was approachable and lively without being flippant, and, most importantly, it was easily understandable. The anecdotes and examples of chemistry in action were enjoyable and occasionally amusing."
Chemistry World, August 2007

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

25.05.2007

Verlag

Wiley-VCH

Seitenzahl

249

Maße (L/B/H)

22,3/14,9/2,7 cm

Gewicht

468 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-3-527-31863-6

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Wiley-VCH GmbH
Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstrasse 12, DE-69469 Weinheim
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  • Produktbild: Better Looking, Better Living, Better Loving
  • CHAPTER 1 - Better Looking (I): Hair, eyes, teeth, nails
    News item from the future: Toujour Jeune sales top 10 billion!
    Crowning glory (hair dyes)
    Thinning on top (hair restorers)
    I can see clearly now (contact lenses)
    A gleaming smile (tooth whiteners)
    Nailed (nail extensions)
    Issues: Are natural ingredients for cosmetics better than those made by the chemical industry?
    CHAPTER 2 - Better living (II): Medical advances
    News item from the future: Ms World in $5M product-placement row!
    Skin diseases (acne, eczema, and psoriasis)
    An agile or fragile old age? (arthritis drugs)
    Carbohydrates as cures (new drugs)
    Anaesthetics (new gases)
    Issue: Do homeopathic medicines really work?
    CHAPTER 3 - Better loving: the not-so-dirty weekend
    News item from the future: Armpits advance thoughts of romance!
    Smelly chemistry (body odours)
    Wash all my cares away (shower gels)
    It¿s the pits, man (antiperspirants and deodorants)
    Something for the weekend, sir? (condoms)
    We just got married away mum (the morning-after pill)
    Issue: The abuse of chemistry for sex crime purposes: the date rape drugs.
    CHAPTER 4 - Better living (II): Improving our diet
    News item from the future: Yet more land goes back to Nature
    Carbohydrates (simple saccharides)
    Manna from heaven (trehalose)
    Low I2 means low IQ (iodized salt)
    Functional foods (sitostanol ester)
    Crap food? Feeding the fifty billion (prebiotics and probiotics)
    Hot, hot, hot (chilli and cumin)
    Issue: Does the chemical acrylamide in fried foods constitute a cancer risk?
    CHAPTER 5 - Better living (III): Minor metals for major advances
    News item from the future: New village with zero energy bills
    Solar panels provide photovoltaic (PV) power (silicon and cadmium)
    Glass is green (silicon dioxide)
    The magic of titanium (titanium metal)
    The future¿s blue (gallium nitride)
    Issue: Is the world running out of the rare metals we need to make solar panels?
    CHAPTER 6 - Better living (IV): Chemistry in the home
    News item from the future: Laundry tablets go green all over
    Wash all my troubles away (surfactants etc.)
    Fabric softeners (cationic surfactants)
    All washed up! (polyphosphate and zinc acetate)
    Malodours and air fresheners (triethylene glycol)
    Issue: Might we be the last generation effortlessly to enjoy clean clothes and crockery?
    CHAPTER 7 - The Better Looking (II): The art of the chemist
    News item from the future: Stolen paintings hoard discovered
    Colour (lakes and pigments)
    Analysis (methods for analysing paintings)
    Conservation and restoration (lead sulfide)
    Frauds and fakes (drying oils)
    Finding the forgeries (pigment analysis)
    Issue: Were great artists affected by the pigments they used?
    GLOSSARY
    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    INDEX