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 * * Making Salt the Hard Way
   * Cooking at -320°F
   * Ice Capades
   * Gag with a spoon
   * Rocket Food
   * Dry Ice Cream

 * * Calling Van Helsing
   * Build Your Own Lightbulb
   * Glass Grill
   * Stir Up Some Nylon
   * Make Your Best Shot
   * Soup-Can Searchlight
   * Making a Perfect Match
   * Getting the Lead In

 * * Spark of Destruction
   * DIY Hydrogen
   * Playing with Poison
   * A Tall Glass of Juice
   * Bathtub Ethanol

 * * Flaming Oxygen Drops
   * Burning Metal
   * Melting the Unmeltable
   * Fire without Flame
   * Blowing (Up) Bubbles
   * Making a Deadly Sun

 * * Truth in Sparks
   * Let Burning Metals Lie
   * Building a Tough Bit
   * Titanium in Technicolor
   * Turning Beach Sand to Steel
   * Making Small Change Smaller
   * Pretty Penny
   * Casting About from A1 to Zinc
   * The Amazing
     Rusting Aluminum
   * Metal Cutting for the Masses
   * Homemade Titanium

 * * Trap Lightning in a Block
   * Seeing the Subatomic
   * Ignorance = Maglev = Bliss
   * Metal's Hidden Treasure
   * Save a Snowflake for Decades
   * Making Silicon from Sand
   * Odd Coupling
   * Uncovering a Natural
     (Magnetic) Attraction
   * Atom and Eves

 * * Limelight in the Limelight
   * Plate Your 'Pod
   * Icy Hot
   * Shattering the
     Strongest Glass
   * Nickel Growing in Trees
   * The Original Flash Photo
   * The Worst Way to Inlay
   * Make Everything Golden
   * Hillbilly Hot-Tubbing


THEO GRAY'S » MAD SCIENCE

This is a fabulous book, and a real education too - a beautiful introduction to
hands-on chemistry. Theo Gray brings us dozens of experiments in minute, clear,
and loving detail, and each one becomes a door onto the marvels of how chemicals
react. Whether he is showing us how to make table salt from its violent
elements, or, in a quieter vein, to make one's own nylon thread or "lead"
pencils, Gray's encyclopedic knowledge and contagious enthusiasm transport us to
deep intellectual realms, while never sacrificing a sense of wonder and, above
all, fun.
Oliver Sacks, Awakenings, Uncle Tungsten, Musicophillia
What good is this Nobel Prize around my neck if it doesn't produce admiration
for science writers such as Theo Gray, whose skillful work helps convert young
students into serious researchers.
Leon Lederman, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics
What a magnificent book. It's gorgeous, playful, and draws you in. Every single
photo shows not only a deep love of science in the abstract, but also a
tinkerer's love of the STUFF of science; the tools and glass, the clay and
metal, and all the things that make science accessible to everyone.
Adam Savage, star of MythBusters
The Book

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hat happens when you blow pure chlorine gas into a bowlful of molten sodium? A
fire, that�s what. But the smoke coming off of that fire happens to be extremely
fresh common table salt (NaCl, sodium chloride) that can be used to salt a net
full of popcorn suspended over the flame. That is, until the net melts and the
popcorn drops into the bowl sending a shower of flaming liquid sodium balls in
all directions!

In Mad Science Theodore Gray reveals how to demonstrate scientific principals
through extreme experiments. He launches a toy rocket using the energy released
from an Oreo cookie, ignites a �phosphorous sun� by suspending half a gram of
white phosphorus in a globe filled with pure oxygen, whips up a batch of
homemade nylon thread by linking the molecules of hexamethylenediamine and
sebacoyl chloride, and gets the party started by adding 500 pounds of quicklime
to water to create a homemade hot tub.

Every experiment in Mad Science is accompanied by stunning full-color
photographs that provide a front-row seat to split-second chemical reactions and
glorious subatomic activity. To further enhance the hands-on experience of
scientific exploration, Gray includes step-by-step instructions for nearly every
experiment. Following all of the safety guidelines, readers can safely recreate
some of the fifty-five experiments in the book including making sinking ice
cubes, building sodium acetate sculptures, and burning steel. Other experiments,
such as igniting liquid oxygen drops or turning beach sand to steel, would be
just plain crazy to attempt without the aid of an experienced chemist or someone
who has performed the experiment successfully before.

Mad Science is the perfect book for anyone fascinated by all things electrical,
chemical, or explosive, and who loves a vicarious thrill.


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