Theodore Gray’s Completely Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home, but Probably Shouldn’t, the Complete and Updated Edition

<div><p><strong>The ultimate Theodore Gray collection, <em>Theodore Gray's Completely Mad Science</em> collects every one of Gray's dramatic, visually spectacular, and enlightening scientific experiments into one complete volume.</strong></p><p><strong><br></strong></p><p>Bestselling author Theodore Gray has spent more than a decade dreaming up, executing, photographing, and writing about extreme scientific experiments, which he then published between 2009 and 2014 in his monthly <em>Popular Science</em> column "Gray Matter." </p><p>Previously published in book form by Black Dog in two separate volumes (<em>Mad Science</em> and <em>Mad Science 2</em>), these experiments, plus an additional 5, are available now in one complete book.</p><p><em>Completely Mad Science</em> is 432 pages of dazzling chemical demonstrations, illustrated in spectacular full-color photographs. Experiments include: Casting a model fish out of mercury (demonstrating how this element behaves very differently depending upon temperature); the famous Flaming Bacon Lance that can cut through steel (demonstrating the amount of energy contained in fatty foods like bacon); creating nylon thread out of pure liquid by combining molecules of hexamethylenediamine and sebacoyl chloride; making homemade ice cream using a fire extinguisher and a pillow case; powering your iPhone using 150 pennies and an apple, and many, many more.</p><p>Theodore Gray is the author of <em>The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe; Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything; Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home, But Probably Shouldn't; </em>and <em>Mad Science 2: Experiments You Can Do at Home, but </em>Still<em> Probably Shouldn't</em>. He lives in Urbana, Illinois.</p></div>