Download or read book What is Chemistry? written by Peter Atkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A primer for anyone who would like to understand chemistry. If humans had not harnessed chemistry, we would all literally still be living in the Stone Age. Peter Atkins celebrates the importance of this most fundamental science. In non-technical lay language, he explains its concepts, components, and methods.