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The consumer's good chemical guide : a jargon-free guide to the chemicals of everyday life
- Title
- The consumer's good chemical guide : a jargon-free guide to the chemicals of everyday life / John Emsley.
- Author
- Emsley, John.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : W.H. Freeman, [1994]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RA1213 .E47 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 347 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- The Guide explains in accessible, non-technical language the science behind sugar and artificial sweeteners; cholesterol, animal fats and fibre; painkillers, and the risks associated with taking drugs; plastics and PVC; dioxins and nitrates in the environment; and carbon dioxide and the greenhouse gases. Also included are chapters on two products which are entirely chemical, but commonly not thought of as such: perfume and alcohol.
- Here, the reader discovers that not only do fragrance chemicals give a great deal of innocent pleasure, their synthetic versions have been responsible for reducing the large-scale slaughter of some wild animals; and that alcohol can not only improve the quality of life, it may even prolong it.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-330) and index.
- ISBN
- 0716745054 :
- LCCN
- 94008286
- OCLC
- 29911513
- ocm29911513
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries