How to Make Diamonds From Your Pencils

Bonkers dilemmas that can be solved with science and a bunch of brilliant chemistry experiments.

Survive at sea with pirates! Carry a dinosaur egg across the jungle! Send secret messages! Make diamonds from pencils!

Explore a bunch of ridiculous (and not-so-ridiculous) dilemmas – with solutions from the astonishing world of chemistry. Sounds unbelievable? Test the science for yourself, with easy-to-follow experiments throughout! What are you waiting for? Let’s become millionaires!

Written by bestselling and award-winning author Swapna Haddow, with brilliantly funny colour illustrations from award-winning illustrator Jess Bradley.

BOOK 1 OUT NOW: How to Save Your Granny From a Runaway Train (physics)COMING SOON: How to Stop a T. rex From Eating Your Socks (biology)Experiments in How to Make Diamonds From Your Pencils:

Secret Messages

Exploding rocket

Chromatography detective

Instant ice cream

Static electricity

Whole egg in a bottle

Salt crystals

pH indicator

Green pennies

Shiny pennies

Collapse a bottle

Chocolate crispy treats

Oobleck

‘Eco Plastic'

Slime