Perkin's perfect purple : how a boy created color with chemistry

The Resource Perkin's perfect purple : how a boy created color with chemistry
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Perkin's perfect purple : how a boy created color with chemistry
Title remainder
how a boy created color with chemistry
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by Tami Lewis Brown and Debbie Loren Dunn ; illustrated by Francesca Sanna
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Language
eng
Summary
Many years ago, the color purple was available only to a privileged few because the process was very complicated and expensive. Then in 1856, a boy named William Henry Perkin was testing a hypothesis about a cure for malaria and found that his experiment resulted in something else--something vivid and rare for the times: synthetic purple. Perkin, a pioneer of the modern scientific method, made numerous advances possible, including canned food and chemotherapy. But it was his creation of purple that started it all. This book is a joyous celebration of Perkin's impactful purple.--
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adapted from publisher description
Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
YDX
Dewey number
  • 547.86/092
  • B
  • 540.92
  • B
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
QD22.P4
LC item number
B76 2020
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Target audience
juvenile

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