Why There's Antifreeze in Your Toothpaste: The Chemistry of Household Ingredients

by Simon Quellen Field

Book Overview

A Selection of the Scientific American Book Club Explaining why antifreeze is a component of toothpaste and how salt works in shampoo, this fascinating handbook delves into the chemistry of everyday... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556526970
• ISBN13: 9781556526978
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Interesting

This isn't a book that try to explain things in normal paragraphs and chapters. It's essentially a dictionary of different chemicals that you can look up and it offers their formula along with some interesting facts. Some entries are more detailed then others. If you ever wanted to look at an ingredients list on the back of a package and understand what the weird ones are, then this book will help. But it isn't something to just sit back and have a good read. At least not for most book lovers.

Excellent Household product chemistry demystified

The author was inspired to probe on the chemistry of household ingredients not by the book title but the presence of salt in common shampoo brands and hopes the rationale for buying the book is curiosity and not fear. More than 20-25 sections covering all types of products and sidebars with additional info - highly informative ex: brown color in Colas comes from caramel etc I will reccomend most of the books in DOC DAVE's Chemistry as Entertainment "LISTMANIA" - hope fully this gets included as well.