Offers ten suggestions for where beauty might reside in experimental chemistry. These ten experiments offer a window into the way that chemists think and work, and how what they do affects the rest of science and the wider world. It aims to stimulate the reader to think anew about some of the relationships and differences between science and art.

"Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry" is accessible to all readers, including those without a scientific background and can provide an unusual point of entry into some of the basic concepts of chemistry.

Introduction: What is an Experiment? What is Beauty?
Section 1: Asking Questions of Nature
Chapter 1: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Chapter 2: An Element Compounded
Chapter 3: New Light
Chapter 4: The Marvellous Glass Balloon
Chapter 5: The Elements Came in One By One
Divertissement 1: Chemistry as Theatre
Section 2: Posing New Questions
Chapter 6: Molecules Take Shape
Divertissement 2: Myths and Romances
Chapter 7: Life and How to Make It
Chapter 8: Not So Noble
Section 3: The Art of Making Things
Chapter 9: Nature Rebuilt
Chapter 10: Plato's Molecules
Divertissement 3: Chemical Aesthetics.