A home laboratory for fun experiments
14.99 €
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A home laboratory for fun experiments
14.99 €
It tells how to equip a home laboratory, design devices for research in chemistry, biology and physics and conduct experiments with them. It shows how to make your own laboratory glassware, a Wilson chamber for detecting cosmic radiation, microscopes with magnification from 25 to 160, barometers, thermometers and hygrometers, magnets, motors, batteries and capacitors, a microtome, anemometer and seismograph, a telescope, spectroscope and nephoscope, oxygen and hydrogen generators, a Campbell-Stokes heliograph, etc. It describes how to conduct more than 1,600 experiments: hydrogen production, growing crystals, detecting life in a drop of water, measuring all sorts of quantities (from mass to electrical conductivity, metabolic rate or cosmic radiation), creating an electric motor, observing Jupiter's satellites, setting and solving many other fascinating scientific problems. This modern version of the book, supplemented with comments and notes by Windell Oskey, will show you how to conduct scientific research at school, at home or at work.
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