Chemical Chaos
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780590191258 (059019125X)
Publish date: February 21st 1997
Publisher: Scholastic
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Series: Horrible Science
This taught me genuinely fascinating things, including how one famous diamond drove everyone who touched it mad, and how volcanoes in South Africa and elsewhere are rich sources of diamonds. One star off for a really grim focus on poisons and other chemistry-induced mortification.