Understanding the chemistry behind much of what we see today is usually reserved for scientists and technicians. But if you are looking to be more self-sufficient, understanding these basics can be an important building block to your life.
The problem is, where does someone find the kind of information that can usually only be found in a lab environment? More importantly, how does anyone then move from that basic information to useful information that will not result in your home being blown up or turning the student of chemistry into a giant green monster? Okay- maybe not the last one, but you get the picture.
Chemistry and the formulas and practical uses for it are not something that you just casually experiment in and hope to understand.
That is what makes this collection of instructions so unique. It has everything from how to set up and run your own bacteriology lab to how to create useful commercial compounds from ordinary household ingredients. All of this information is basic to everyday life, from understanding how soap is made to knowing what combination of ingredients will keep mosquitoes at bay. In fact, basic chemistry will tell the difference between soap and detergent and when you need one or the other.
If you have never ventured into DIY chemistry and want to check it out, then our booklet on how to set up your own lab is just right for you. It is written for beginners and will get you on the road to understanding basic chemistry. Our booklet on practical chemistry might be a good next step, along with our guide to creating important commercial chemicals from simple household items. For the really advanced chemists we even have an advanced organic chemistry lab booklet that will challenge you and also open your eyes up to new possibilities in organic chemistry right in your own home.
Chemistry is all around us, and understanding it is just one more important step in discovering how to make ourselves a bit more independent of the giant corporate grid we are all surrounded by. These DIY chemistry guidelines will open up doors to explore new ways to create and manage additional chemical elements in and around your home.
This manual provides experiments that will teach advanced chemistry students different facets of the world of chemistry. This advanced organic chemistry manual teaches students how to deal with a wide variety of substances and reactions.
Basic Laboratory Procedures in Clinical Bacteriology will provide you with the basics of bacterial work. Readers will get a grounding in the importance of health services and how they can help to reduce communicable diseases.
This detailed list provides chemical names and formulas along with their commercial counterparts and where to find them.
Concentrative Properties of Aqueous Solutions presents the details on, density, refractive index, freezing point depression, and viscosity, of 66 substances.
Ever wanted to construct your own chemistry lab? Find out how in this easy to read guide. Especially written for beginners, it teaches the fundamentals of chemical science in understandable terms.
This book is a simple guide through the complexities of building, operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting distillation equipment.
How to Assemble Your Chemistry Lab Equipment is an easy-to-read guide that provides the home chemist with all the details he or she needs to build their own simple laboratory.
This guide makes learning chemistry easy. Practical Chemistry, is a practical chemistry book that can be used in science classes to provide an elementary, practical, and efficient method of studying the subject. Chemistry teachers and students alike, have always felt the need for a method by which chemistry could be studied for sound knowledge of elementary facts [...]
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