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Vanity, vitality, and virility : the science behind the products you love to buy /
The science behind alpha-hydroxy acids, chlorine bleach, and other chemicals that people use every day is explored in a fascinating study that examines, through amusing anecdotes and odd facts, if and how they work. What is the secret of shower cleaners? How does the dangerous explosive nitroglyceri...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Vanity : no more wrinkles!
- Lipstick
- Anti-aging creams : alpha-hydroxy acids (AHAs)
- Silky smooth skin : boron nitride
- Sunblocks, sunscreens, and instant tans
- Liposomes
- 2. Vitality : food for thought
- Clarifying the fats
- Trans fatty acids
- Conjugated fatty acids
- Vitamin C
- The nitrate enigma
- 3. Virility, sterility, and Viagra
- Nitric oxide (NO)
- Raising the dead : Viagra
- Love potions and poppers
- An element of sex : selenium
- Diamonds are a girl's best friend
- 4. Germs warfare
- Killing germs
- Hypochlorite
- Phenols and chloro-phenols
- Quaternary ammonium salts, 'quats'
- Hydrogen peroxide
- Ozone
- Shower cleaners
- 5. It's all in the mind
- Depression and antidepressants
- Prozac
- A little light-headed : lithium therapy
- Alzheimer's disease and aluminum
- Treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD)
- 6. Polymers in disguise
- Disposable unmentionables and superabsorbent polymers (SAPs)
- Chewing gum : polymeric hydrocarbons : 1
- Whispering roads : polymeric hydrocarbons : 2
- Polycarbonate
- Postscript : chemiphobia, its causes and cure
- Glossary.