Everyday Chemistry

Our everyday life is full of chemistry. In the bathroom, in the kitchen, in the car, in the first aid kit and even in nature. Behind the simplest things - from spices to antiseptics - there is a complex formula and at least several chemical compounds with scary names that interact with each other in one way or another (usually incomprehensible to us).

In the book, toxicologist chemist Volodymyr Sarkisyan explains how the things and phenomena we encounter every day function at the chemical level - cooking, cleaning and washing, buying medicines, ice on the roads. There are not only formulas and schemes, but also completely everyday and practical examples. When should you salt fried potatoes and why a homeopath will not be able to poison anyone (or cure anyone)? On what principle do marijuana, pesticides and shampoo work? Where did soap, antiseptics come from and are there any miracle “all-in-one” creams? Volodymyr Sarkisyan talks about all this, explaining the principle of action of simple compounds and substances, while sharing culinary life hacks and stories from Pliny, Dumas, and Agatha Christie.