TY  - BOOK
AU  - Le Couteur,Penny
AU  - Burreson,Jay
TI  - Napoleon´s buttons: 17 molecules that changed history 
SN  - 1585423319
U1  - 540 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
KW  - Química
KW  - Historia
N1  - _; 1; Peppers, nutmeg, and cloves --; 2; Ascorbic acid --; 3; Glucose --; 4; Cellulose --; 5; Nitro compounds --; 6; Silk and nylon --; 7; Phenol --; 8; Isoprene --; 9; Dyes --; 10; Wonder drugs --; 11. The; pill --; 12; Molecules of witchcraft --; 13; Morphine, nicotine, and caffeine --; 14; Oleic acid --; 15; Salt --; 16; Chlorocarbon compounds --; 17; Molecules versus malaria --; Epilogue --; Acknowledgments --; Selected bibliography --; Index
N2  - Examines the roles that the molecular properties of such items as the birth control pill, caffeine, and the buttons on the uniforms of Napoleon´s army have played in the course of history
ER  -