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The Molecules Behind Modern Life: Understanding the Chemistry That Powers Everyday Products
Chemistry is embedded in products people encounter every day, even when the molecules behind them remain invisible. Medicines depend on carefully designed compounds, electronics require specialised materials, buildings use coatings and additives, agriculture relies on crop inputs and mobility depends on polymers, lubricants and advanced materials. This edition explores the chemistry behind modern life across industries and applications, showing how chemical science transforms molecular properties into useful performance and enables products that society increasingly takes for granted.
Editor's Note
Many of the technologies and products surrounding us begin with chemistry. Their performance may depend on a coating only microns thick, a specialised polymer, a pharmaceutical molecule or an additive present in a small concentration. This edition looks beyond the finished product to explore the molecular science underneath it and demonstrate why chemistry remains one of the fundamental enabling disciplines behind modern industry and everyday life.
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