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Name: How to Fossilize Your Hamster
Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Mick O'Hare

📘 How to Fossilize Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare

How to Fossilize Your Hamster offers lively, do‑it‑yourself experiments that demonstrate key scientific ideas using commonplace household objects. The book walks readers through procedures such as weighing objects, measuring light speed with a microwave, and observing chemical changes like green eggs—all designed to reveal physics and chemistry principles in an accessible, engaging format. Mick O’Hare’s approachable style invites anyone to explore science from their own kitchen or back‑yard, making the abstract tangible and the ordinary fascinating.

First publish date: 2007

Genre: Science/Physics

Authors: Mick O'Hare

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