Bonkers dilemmas that can be solved with science and a bunch of brilliant chemistry experiments.
Survive at sea with pirates! Carry a dinosaur egg across the jungle! Send secret messages! Make diamonds from pencils!
Explore a bunch of ridiculous (and not-so-ridiculous) dilemmas – with solutions from the astonishing world of chemistry.
Sounds unbelievable? Test the science for yourself, with easy-to-follow experiments throughout!
What are you waiting for? Let’s become millionaires!
Written by bestselling and award-winning author Swapna Haddow, with brilliantly funny colour illustrations from award-winning illustrator Jess Bradley.
BOOK 1 OUT NOW: How to Save Your Granny From a Runaway Train (physics)
COMING SOON: How to Stop a T. rex From Eating Your Socks (biology)
Experiments in How to Make Diamonds From Your Pencils:
• Secret Messages • Exploding rocket • Chromatography detective • Instant ice cream • Static electricity • Whole egg in a bottle • Salt crystals • pH indicator • Green pennies • Shiny pennies • Collapse a bottle • Chocolate crispy treats • Oobleck • ‘Eco Plastic' • Slime
This is Book 2 in the Solved by Science Series. See all Solved by Science books here.
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Swapna Haddow lives in London with her karate-chopping,swash-buckling son (his words not hers), her thirty-something, age-sensitive husband and Archie the Dog. She spends her time writing, eating cake and making sure her son doesn't flatten her husband was he attempts to master his human cannonball trick.
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Sheena Demps
Jess Bradley is an illustrator living and working in Bristol, England. She likes playing video games, painting, and watching bad films. Jess can also be heard to make a high-pitched squeeeee when excited, usually while watching videos clips of otters or getting new comics in the mail.
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