The Elements of Chemistry
Quarks, Atoms and Molecules
Red Wheel Weiser LLC · Print & ebook · September 15, 2025
What makes a quark?
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- Who it’s for
- Trace how quarks, protons, atoms, and molecules build the material world.
- Themes
- Chemistry, Building blocks of matter, Subatomic particles
- Pacing
- Fast
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What makes a quark? How many quarks make a proton? How many protons make an oxygen atom? How many oxygen atoms make a carbon dioxide molecule? How many carbon atoms make you? In this accessible pocket book, packed with helpful diagrams and fascinating information, science writer Matt Tweed takes us on a whirlwind tour into the tiny realms, the stuff we are all made of, the building blocks of the material world—the elements of chemistry.
Quarks to Molecules
Trace how quarks, protons, atoms, and molecules build the material world.
Come here for
- Questions linking quarks to protons
- Diagrams and information about chemistry’s building blocks
Expect
- A pocket-book tour of tiny realms
- Connections from oxygen atoms to carbon dioxide molecules
Where it sits
| Chemistry | 90% |
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Publisher categories
- Curiosities & Wonders
- Chemistry
- Physical Chemistry
- Authors
- Matt Tweed
- Publisher
- Red Wheel Weiser LLC
- Published
- September 15, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Chemistry · Building blocks of matter · Subatomic particles
- Reading lane
- Curiosities & Wonders