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Creative Chemistry - Edward Slosson - Full Audiobook

Slosson reviews the transformation of alchemistry from an obscure and imprecise practice to the science of chemistry. Along the way, he explains how the modern industrial world now relies on fertilizers, explosives, textile materials, polymers and metals.By exploring the properties of a once undervalued element, the high strength of vanadium steel made the Ford car possible. Another element, cerium, appears in butane lighters and was once seen as a threat to the match industry in France. In his

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Creative Chemistry - Full Audiobook Part 2 - Edward...
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Creative Chemistry - Full Audiobook Part 1 - Edward...
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Episode 16 - Metals Old and New 2
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36:51
Episode 15 - Metals Old and New 1
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60:00
Episode 14 - Products of the Electric Furnace
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40:22
Episode 13 - Fighting With Fumes
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44:06
Episode 12 - Solidified Sunshine
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33:54
Episode 11 - What Comes From Corn
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36:39
Episode 10 - The Rival Sugars
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41:21
Episode 9 - The Race for Rubber
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37:02
Episode 8 - Synthetic Plastics
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40:51
Episode 7 - Cellulose
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39:23
Episode 6 - Synthetic Perfumes and Flavors
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41:16
Episode 5 - Coal-Tar Colors 2
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29:38
Episode 4 - Coal-Tar Colors 1
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48:39
Episode 3 - Feeding the Soil
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Episode 2 - Nitrogen
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21:52
Episode 1 - Three Periods of Progress
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12:34
Introduction - Creative Chemistry
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