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Feuer & Flamme, Schall & Rauch | [020913-ChH] |
| Genre: | Book (Publisher: Wiley-VCH, 1st edition, Feb.1999) |
 ISBN 3-527-29818-5 |
| Quote: |
Fire and flame, sound and smoke (...) Whether traditional fireworks or breath-taking special effects, such sensational chemical demonstrations are "crowd pullers" until today and inspire young and old. On their forey through four hundered years of public lectures of experimental chemistry, the authors have met with all kinds of things quaint and worth knowing. They are telling of alchemists and their "magical" art, of chemical demonstrations at the courts of princes and kings, of great teachers such as Justus von Liebig, Michael Faraday or George Lichtenberg and their successors (...) | |
| Evaluation: | Due to the constantly growing amount of materials to be coped with, lectures or demonstrations of experimental chemistry are getting more and more rare nowadays. Here, the most interesting and splendig experiments are collected - actually, everything necessary to give a lecture of experimental chemistry following the old masters such as Justus von Liebig & Co. (...) | |
| Author: | F.R.Kreißl, O.Krätz | |
| Language: |
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| Link: | Wiley-VCH | |
| Target group: | A great book for everybody who has only a small chemical qualification. A jewel and source of inspiration for masterminds. |
