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btilly · 2022-08-23 · Original thread
If your goal is to actually learn chemistry, I would recommend textbooks. I'm not a chemist myself so I can't give a good recommend.

If your goal is to learn somechemistry while being entertained, https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd... is a classic, and https://www.amazon.com/Chemistry-Book-Gunpowder-Graphene-Mil... is by the author of the blog post that this is about.

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