This little book of chemical facts covers all of the elements and major concepts of chemistry with one page of text and one page of drawings per concept.
And yet, it is good review of chemistry and dense with basic facts. Matt Tweed covers bonding in a page: covalent bonds, metallic bonds, ionic bonds and hydrogen bonds all in 200 words and six drawings.
Hydrogen and Helium get a page all to themselves; they are the most abundant elements in the universe. The twenty elements of the p-block of the periodic table, like the periodic table itself, are covered in just a page. The twenty elements of p-block include carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, all of the halogens, all of the semi-conductors, as well as tin, lead and aluminum. The main elements of life and the digital world are all in this group.
At the end of the book, we get all the forces of the universe, from gravity to the glue holding the nucleus together. A survey of quarks, baryons, mesons and the weird components of the the nucleus, as well as theories of everything.
A fun review of chemistry.
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