Book club – Handmade by Anna Ploszajski

Chemistry World Book Club by Chemistry World

May 13, 202119:08Science & Medicine

How do you make a chemical-resistant beaker out of a material as fragile as glass? And how do you tell the temperature of a piece of steel without a thermometer? These are questions Anna Ploszajski tackles in her book Ha...

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