Using the energy released from an Oreo cookie, you can launch a toy rocket, or you can create a homemade hot tub by adding 500 pounds of quicklime to water. These are just a few of Theo Gray's 54 experiments included here, as he demonstrates essential scientific principles in ways you were likely never exposed to in school. Every experiment is accompanied by full-color photographs of these rarely seen chemical reactions and subatomic activity. To further enhance the hands-on experience, Gray includes step-by-step instructions for nearly every experiment, plus safety guidelines for armchair scientists to re-create some of the experiments in the book.