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Killer Energy

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Killer Energy is full of the most crazy, gory and horrible facts about energy! Find out all the gruesome details of why space loos spray out frozen pee and which chilling chemical can preserve pets! Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generation of Horrible Science fans.

144 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2002

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Nick Arnold

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Nick Arnold is the author of the award winning series, Horrible Science and Wild Lives. Arnold's first published works appeared as a result of a project he was working on at the University of North London, when he was trying to teach young children. A positive review was written about him, and he started to write the "Horrible Science" books. His books are illustrated by Tony De Saulles.

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9 reviews
December 4, 2022
This book is pretty well written. It provides a lot of basic information about energy. There are lots of puns and jokes in the book, so it is not just plain, boring theory book. The book is consistently fun and enjoyable at all times. There are also some experiments that you can try out by yourself. It also covers some well known and inteligent scientists from the past, and some not so well known and not so inteligent scientists from the past. Fun quizzes, stories and a lot of more. If you want to learn some basic stuff about energy but you want to keep it fun, I would absolutely recommend you this book. It isn't something super advanced, but if you want to start with science, I think this is a good start. I don't know if my impression about this book will stay the same, because it is one of my first books, but I tried to give you my honest oppinion.
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152 reviews
July 9, 2013
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This book is about energy. So fast, energy kind of at the speed of light, but not really. The energy is nice and smooth and that's why it can charge up 10 light bulbs for one year. Movement energy, and even heat, magnetism, sound, and friction and even Isaac Newton is a type of energy! So is gravity (used in my ghost dropping machine), also weight, and even there's the Law of Galileo (and Skitileo),Force of Einstein , Bond of Swan , Wit of Lew.
I would recommend this book to physicists, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Galileo, Lew, and Swan.
102 reviews
November 28, 2015
This book tells about all sorts of energy. There is hydro-electricity, wave power, wind power and solar power. Besides that, this book tells about hot and cold too. When something is hot, the atoms heat up and go everywhere. But when the atoms cool down, they huddle together. At 2006, the "hottest" scientists heated tungsten atoms to 2,000,000,000,000 degrees!
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268 reviews
October 28, 2016
It was awesome to hear on how to save someone's life with liquid nitrogen and that scientists heated up tungsten atoms using a x-ray machine to 2,000,000,000 degrees celsius and that in 1994, scientists used the method of the way the sun does to heat atoms to 510,000,000 celsius.
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July 19, 2016
The best ever book for any one who loves science
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