Chemistry: a very short introduction

Peter Atkins
Oxford University Press
ISBN 9780199683970
2015 | 107pp | £7.99

'When we gaze into the metal coating of a mirror, we are watching the waves in the metal’s electron sea,’ writes Peter Atkins in Chemistry: a very short introduction, a book that certainly made me realise that science and poetic language can make for a perfect blend. 

Atkin’s new slim volume – barely 100 pages – is unusual in other ways than just its witty writing. What immediately caught my eye – or didn’t as the case may be – is that it is free from any images, diagrams, chemical structures or even bullet points.

This article provides a link to the review in Chemistry World.