Philip Ball, "The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science" (MIT Press, 2021)
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In your book, you tell the story of chemistry in a very visual, stunning way. But I'm curious whether it can deepen our understanding of the scientific phenomena. For example, taking, for example, the the snowflakes,. I only recently found out that all the papers snowflakes I was making are not really anatomically correct. So I guess they were, they were eight pointed. That's right. Yeah. Because yes, which is the normal way, I'm afraid I'm pedant with my kids. They have to be sitting on the right. Correct.
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