title: Twisted True Tales From Science: Explosive Experiments
author:  Stephanie Bearce 
description: Stephanie Bearce is a writer, teacher, and history detective. She loves tracking down spies and uncovering secret missions from the comfort of her library in St. Charles, MO. When she isn't writing or teaching, Stephanie loves to travel the world and go on adventures with her husband, Darrell.
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  A Ballantine Book  
  Published by The Random House Publishing Group
  
  Copyright © 2001 by Elizabeth Rosner  
  Reader’s Guide copyright © 2003 by Elizabeth Rosner and The Random House
  Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random
  House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and
  simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
  
  Grateful acknowledgment is made to Penguin Books Ltd. for permission to
  reprint excerpts from The Penguin Dictionary of Science by E. B. Uvarov and D.
  R. Chapman, revised by Alan Isaacs (Penguin Books 1943, Seventh Revised
  Edition 1993) copyright © E. B. Uvarov, D. R. Chapman, and Alan Isaacs, 1943,
  1977, 1986, 1993. Reprinted by permission of Pe