A cor e a química

O seguinte livro foi publicado há poucos meses:

Mary Virginia Orna, The Chemical History of Color, Heidelberg, Springer, 2013.

Índice:

• Introduction: Colors, Natural and Synthetic, in the Ancient World, 1

• Discovery of the Physics of Color, 11

• The Chemical Causes of Color, 29

• Colorant Usage from Antiquity to the Perkin Era, 47

• Beyond Perkin, 79

• Major Analytical Techniques Based on Color: Volumetric Analysis; Chromatography; Spectroscopy; Color Measurement, 93

• Color on the Biological and Biochemical Front, 111

• Finale: Color in Foods, Photochemistry, Photoluminescence, Pharmaceuticals, Fireworks, Fun, and the Future, 129