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Theo Gray has compiled some of his Popular Science columns into a beautiful book of sometimes dangerous experiments, many of them with particular relevance to inorganic chemistry! With chapter names like "Experimental Cuisine", "Doomsday DIY", and "Twisted Shop Class", you know you in for a wild ride. Some particularly intriguing experiments include electroplating a copper design on your iPod, making glass and elemental silicon out of sand, making a burning Mg/dry ice sculpture, anodizing Ti for cool color effects, and creating a "hill billy hot tub" using 600 lbs of quicklime. While you are not likely to do all the experiments, this is a great book for conveying the wonder (and the riskiness!) of chemistry.
If anyone has any good implementation ideas, I'd be interested in hearing about them! Many of the experiments would make good demos, a few are easy enough to turn into lab experiments.
In reply to kids book by Adam Johnson / Harvey Mudd College