Chemistry in the Marketplace Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Some basic ideas	1
Ch. 2	Chemistry of health and risk	17
Ch. 3	Chemistry in the laundry	43
Ch. 4	Chemistry in the kitchen	67
Ch. 5	Chemistry in the boudoir	109
Ch. 6	Chemistry of surfaces	141
Ch. 7	Chemistry in the garden	159
Ch. 8	Chemistry of swimming pools	201
Ch. 9	Chemistry of hardware	213
Ch. 10	Chemistry of metals	251
Ch. 11	Chemistry of fibres, fabrics and other yarns	283
Ch. 12	Chemistry of paints, adhesives, enamels and concrete	301
Ch. 13	Chemistry in the medicine cabinet	327
Ch. 14	Chemistry of energy	369
Ch. 15	Chemistry in the dining room	427
Ch. 16	Chemistry of ionising radiation	467
App. I	Nomenclature in chemistry	486
App. II	The prevalence of logarithmic scales	501
App. III	Use of phase diagrams	506
App. IV	Lead pottery glazes	516
App. V	Child poisoning	520
App. VI	Drug taking data - Australian Bureau of Statistics 1995	522
App. VII	Top 50 pharmaceutical benefits prescriptions 1995-1996	525
App. VIII	The entropy game	528
App. IX	Approved additive numbers	537
App. X	Chemicals available in the marketplace	543
	Glossary	547
	Index	566