Download PDF by Bob Friedhoffer,Joe Hosking: Science Lab in the Supermarket (Illustrated)

By Bob Friedhoffer,Joe Hosking

you possibly do not believe of a grocery store as a technological know-how laboratory. finally, you visit a grocery store to shop for meals, cleansing offers, or paper products—not to behavior experiments. in actual fact each aisle, shelf, corner, and cranny of a grocery store may be the resource of a systematic ask yourself. All you should do is take some time to go searching and use your mind's eye. goods present in the produce aisle can educate you approximately biology. The aisle with cleansing items deals all types of classes in chemistry. The dairy aisle can train you anything approximately technology too. at any place you glance, you could examine the sciences.

The order and placement of the aisles and the association of the cabinets have all been conscientiously designed to get buyers to shop for up to attainable. The innovations utilized by grocery store designers are in line with the technology of psychology, which appears on the habit of human beings.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE - IS WHAT you notice WHAT YOU GET?
Why Is nutrients Packaged?
A vast Trick: the scale of Detergent Containers
Fooling the Senses

CHAPTER - PRODUCE SECTION
Fruits and Vegetables
How Water Travels via Plants
Crying within the Kitchen
Popcorn! Get Your clean Popcorn Here!

CHAPTER 3 - grocery store STAPLES
Going, Going, Gone
It's a fragile Balance
A nearer examine Density
Not a Drop to Drink
Rock Candy

CHAPTER 4 - PASTA, MACARONI, SPAGHETTI, AND different NOODLES

CHAPTER 5 - THE SODA AISLE
It's All approximately Pressure
Diet vs. standard: Which Weighs More?

CHAPTER SIX - cleansing SUPPLIES
Soap: a quick History
How cleaning soap Cleans
Pure or natural Malarkey?
Detergents
The Laundry Blues
Cleaning with Scratchy Stuff
The Mohs' Scale: What Does tougher Mean?

CHAPTER SEVEN - GETTING STUFF OUT OF BOTTLES
Aerosol Spray Cans and Bottles
Spray Cans
Spray Bottles
Baby Bottles

CHAPTER 8 - THE COOLER AND FREEZER AISLES
Some Cool Questions (and Answers)

CHAPTER 9 - THE DAIRY CASE
Where Does Cream Come From?
How to Whip Cream
Before it is Butter
I Scream, You Scream, all of us Scream for Ice Cream

APPENDIX

GLOSSARY

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