Asimov on chemistry.

Collection of essays:

PART I. INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
The weighting game
Slow burn
The element of perfection
Welcome, stranger!
Death in the laboratory
To tell a chemist

PART II. NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY
The evens have it

PART III. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
You too can speak Gaelic

PART IV. BIOCHEMISTRY
The haste-makers
Life's bottleneck
The egg and wee
That's life
Not as we know it

PART V. GEOCHEMISTRY
Recipe for a planet
No more ice ages?

PART VI. GENERAL
The nobelmen of science
The Isaac winners