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Course Description

Explore the world through eight amazing molecules. Understand how essential oils and the quest for spices motivated exploration and economics. Explore the history and challenges of painkillers, opiate addiction and the opium wars. View the war on malaria. Investigate the history and health of olive oil and oleic acid and fatty acids. Evaluate salt as a critical molecule of life. Study the good and bad of nitro-things, nitroglycerin, trinitrotoluene (TNT) and more. Compare silk and nylon, natural and unnaturall polymers, and the "chemistry and cruelty" of cotton.

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