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Creative Chemistry
CHATS ON SCIENCE
Once a Slosson Reader
Always a Slosson Fan
JUST PUBLISHED
CHATS ON SCIENCE
By E.E. SLOSSON
Author of "Creative Chemistry," etc.
Dr. Slosson is nothing short of a prodigy. He is a triple-starred scientist man who can bring down the highest flying scientific fact and tame it so that any of us can live with it and sometimes even love it. He can make a fairy tale out of coal-tar dyes and a laboratory into a joyful playhouse while it continues functioning gloriously as a laboratory. But to readers of "Creative Chemistry" it is wasting time to talk about Dr. Slosson's style.
"Chats On Science," which has just been published, is made up of eighty-five brief chapters or sections or periods, each complete in itself, dealing with a gorgeous variety of subjects. They go from Popover Stars to Soda Water, from How Old Is Disease to Einstein in Words of One Syllable. The reader can begin anywhere, but when he begins he will ultimately read the entire series. It is good science and good reading. It contains some of the best writing Dr. Slosson has ever done.
The Boston Transcript says: "These 'Chats' are even more fascinating, were that possible, than 'Creative Chemistry.' They are more marvelous than the most marvelous of fairy tales ... Even an adequate review could give little idea of the treasures of modern scientific knowledge 'Chats on Science' contains ... Dr. Slosson has, besides rare scientific knowledge, that gift of the gods—imagination."
("Chats on Science" by E.E. Slosson is published by The Century Company, 353 Fourth Avenue, New York City. It is sold for $2.00 at all bookstores, or it may be ordered from the publisher.)
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Slosson reviews the transformation of alchemistry from an obscure and imprecise practice to the science of chemistry. Along the way, he explains how the modern industrial world now relies on fertilizers, explosives, textile materials, polymers and metals.
By exploring the properties of a once undervalued element, the high strength of vanadium steel made the Ford car possible. Another element, cerium, appears in butane lighters and was once seen as a threat to the match industry in France.
In his chapter on oils, Slosson reviews the development of hydrogenated oils, especially during WWII, in the search for a way to reuse otherwise discarded components of corn and cottonseed. Through the revolutionary reaction of hydrogenation, waste materials became a stable product that wouldn't spoil when packaged or carried without refrigeration. Once thought of as a miracle, shoppers were once willing to pay more for fully hydrogenated oils than their natural, unsaturated forms. Only in recent years has evidence of health risks checked their popularity and given them the image of cheap, unhealthy fillers. (Summary by LivelyHive)
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