How to Make Diamonds From Your Pencils

Bonkers dilemmas that can be solved with science and a bunch of brilliant chemistry experiments.

Bonkers dilemmas that can be solved with science and a bunch of brilliant chemistry experiments.

Survive at sea with pirates! Carry a dinosaur egg across the jungle! Send secret messages! Make diamonds from pencils!

Explore a bunch of ridiculous (and not-so-ridiculous) dilemmas – with solutions from the astonishing world of chemistry.

Sounds unbelievable? Test the science for yourself, with easy-to-follow experiments throughout!

What are you waiting for? Let’s become millionaires!

Written by bestselling and award-winning author Swapna Haddow, with brilliantly funny colour illustrations from award-winning illustrator Jess Bradley.

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Experiments in How to Make Diamonds From Your Pencils:

• Secret Messages • Exploding rocket • Chromatography detective • Instant ice cream • Static electricity • Whole egg in a bottle • Salt crystals • pH indicator • Green pennies • Shiny pennies • Collapse a bottle • Chocolate crispy treats • Oobleck • ‘Eco Plastic' • Slime

Contributor: Jess Bradley (Illustrated by)

Illustrator: Jess Bradley

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