- acid-base reactions, 10, 287
- Agricola, Georgius, 69
- amphiphiles, 107
- animal markings, 232, 233, 244, 329, 340, 342
- anthocyanin pigments, 244, 261
- Arnold, Frances, 37, 362
- Atkins, Peter, 187
- batteries, 216, 219, 220, 224
- Bayer, Ernst, 261
- Belousov, Boris, 330, 333
- Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, 333, 336
- Bentley, Wilson, 123
- Bragg, Lawrence, 60
- Bragg, William, 60
- Brugnatelli, Luigi, 220
- bubbles, 6–36
- carbon nanotubes, 190
- Carlisle, Anthony, 216
- catenanes, 159, 366
- champagne, 19–28
- chemical gardens, 296–324
- chemical philosophy, 80
- chemical waves, 333, 336
- color change
- by pH, 261
- in plants, 230–269
- combustion, 162–197
- Crick, Francis, 63, 357
- crystallization, 38–76
- crystal structure, 48, 57, 60, 363, 370–372
- Dalton, John, 174
- Darwin, Charles, 4
- Davy, Humphry, 219, 220
- dendritic growth, 112–158
- diamond, 190, 371
- diffusion-limited aggregation, 148
- displacement reaction, 32
- DNA, 63, 320, 357, 369
- dyes, 254–256
- electrochemistry, 198–227
- electrodeposition, 123, 148, 202, 220, 221, 224
- electrolysis, 216, 219, 220
- electromagnetic spectrum, 273, 276, 278, 279
- electron, 3, 202
- electroplating, 202, 220, 221
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 155
- enthalpy, 293
- entropy, 293
- equilibrium, thermodynamic, 145
- evaporation, 58, 80, 90, 221, 291
- extremophiles, 108
- Faraday, Michael, 162, 163, 166, 174, 183, 196, 220
- Feynman, Richard, 4
- flames, 160–197
- flocculation, 110
- fractals, 155
- Franklin, Rosalind, 63
- free radicals, 187
- fuels, 183
- fullerenes, 190, 367
- Galvani, Luigi, 216
- Glauber, Johann, 303, 304
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 348
- graphite, 190
- Hayashi, Kozo, 261
- hemoglobin, 60
- Herschel, John, 358
- Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot, 62, 63
- Hoffmann, Roald, 295
- Humphreys, William, 123
- Huxley, Thomas Henry, 123
- hydrangeas, 261–263
- hydrogen bonding, 89, 90, 96, 100
- hydrothermal vents, 320–322
- infrared imaging. See thermal imaging
- Kepler, Johannes, 45, 48, 116, 123
- Lavoisier, Antoine, 166
- Le Chatelier's principle, 11, 13
- Leduc, Stéphane, 310, 311
- Lehn, Jean-Marie, 101
- Levi, Primo, 1, 2, 32, 80, 329, 355, 356, 362
- Lewis, Gilbert N., 2, 3
- Liebig, Justus von, 221
- Liesegang, Raphael Eduard, 336
- Liesegang bands, 336
- light, 276, 278
- litmus, 271
- Lotka, Alfred, 330
- Mann, Thomas
- Doctor Faustus, 311
- The Magic Mountain, 116
- mechanical bond, 159, 325, 366
- membranes, of cells, 107
- Mendeleev, Dmitri, 2, 3
- Merret, Christopher, 20
- mineral dendrites, 145, 148, 154, 155
- Moët, Claude, 20
- molecular structures, 362, 363
- Mullins, William, 128, 129
- Naica caves, Mexico, 69
- neutron, 3
- Newton, Isaac, 304
- Nicholson, William, 216
- Oganessian, Yuri, 77, 166
- origin of life, 320–322
- osmosis, 304, 316
- oxidation, 163, 165, 166, 206–208
- pattern formation, 145, 196, 326–353
- Pérignon, Dom Pierre, 19, 20
- periodic table, 2, 3
- Perkin, William, 356
- Perutz, Max, 60
- pigments, in plants, 244
- precipitation, 78–111
- proteins, 96, 100–103, 108
- proton, 3
- Pynchon, Thomas, 329
- reaction-diffusion systems, 333, 340, 342, 351
- redox reactions, 208
- reflectivity of metals, 226
- relativistic effects in chemistry, 226, 227
- Robinson, Carol, 229
- roses, colors of, 268
- rotaxane, 325
- Runge, Friedlieb Ferdinand, 348–351
- Runge patterns, 348–351
- Sacks, Oliver, 355
- Sekerka, Robert, 128, 129
- Shibata, Keita and Yuji, 261
- snowflakes, 45, 116, 123, 128, 129, 136
- solubility, 84, 89
- solvation, 89, 100
- spectroscopy, 192
- Steinheil, August von, 221
- Stoddart, J. Fraser, 159, 325, 366
- symmetry breaking, 330
- thermal imaging, 270–294
- thermodynamics, 176, 290–293, 330
- thermoreception, 285
- Thompson, Benjamin (Count Rumford), 174
- Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth, 123
- Traube, Moritz, 304
- Turing, Alan, 340–342
- Turing structures, 329, 340–342
- water, 89, 90
- Watson, James, 63, 357
- Wilkins, Maurice, 63
- Woodward, Robert, 355
- X-ray crystallography, 60–64, 363
- Zhabotinsky, Anatoly, 333