Author(s): Bassam Z. Shakhashiri
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 352
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Date Published: 2007-04-01
Dimensions: 225.55 x 288.8 x 25.4mm
Publication City/Country: Wisconsin, United States
Edition:
Illustrations: Illustrations, music

The demonstrations capture interest, teach, inform, fascinate, amaze, and perhaps, most importantly, involve students in chemistry. Nowhere else will you find books that answer, "How come it happens? . . . Is it safe? . . . What do I do with all the stuff when the demo is over?" Shakhashiri and his collaborators offer 282 chemical demonstrations arranged in 11 chapters. Each demonstration includes seven sections: a brief summary, a materials list, a step-by-step account of procedures to be used, an explanation of the hazards involved, information on how to store or dispose of the chemicals used, a discussion of the phenomena displayed and principles illustrated by the demonstration, and a list of references.