Why Does Asparagus Make Your Wee Smell?: And 57 Other Curious Food and Drink Questions
Author(s): Andy Brunning
Why does cooking bacon smell so good? Why does asparagus makes your pee smell? Why do onions make you cry?
Find out the answers in this compendium of amazing and easy-to-undertand chemistry. Featuring over sixty different questions, you will discover all sorts of wonderful science that affects us on daily basis. Andy Brunning opens up the chemical world behind the sensations we experience through food and drink - popping candy, brain freeze, spicy chillies and many more. Exploring the aromas, flavours and bodily reactions with beautiful infographics and explanations, COMPOUND INTEREST is guaranteed to satisfy curious minds. And did you know that nutmeg can make you hallucinate? Prepare to be astounded by chemical breakdown like never before.
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Amazing infographics and explanations reveal the weird science behind our everyday food and drink.
Andy Brunning is a graduate chemist and a secondary school teacher with a true passion for making chemistry exciting and interesting. He created the hit Compound Interest blog, examining the chemical reactions we come across on a day-to-day basis. Andy lives in Bournemouth. Check out the blog at www.compoundchem.com Tweet Compound Interest @compoundchem
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- : Orion Publishing Co
- : Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- : 0.52
- : 30 June 2015
- : 165mm X 189mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 November 2015
- : books
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- : Andy Brunning
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : en
- : 540
- : 144
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