Chemistry Coloring Book - a Surprise Castle exclusive

24 hand-illustrated scenes from the laboratory and the molecular imagination, from a fullerene cage to a swirling alchemical cauldron.

Mix slowly. Color carefully.

A hand-drawn adult coloring book, 24 scenes that run from glass beakers and crystalline minerals to molecular trees and industrial facilities. The pace is set by the slow drip of a pipette and the steady reflux of a flask, not the next notification.

Step into a model of a fullerene molecule with concentric spherical carbon atoms. Walk to a glassware bench laid out with flasks, beakers, test tubes, and graduated cylinders. Pull up to an alchemical lab with bubbling flasks, heating apparatus, and a mortar and pestle. Then to a molecular reaction chamber where bonded molecules release from a conical flask.

The pages keep moving. A molecular cloud emanating from a flask, diverse spheres bonded together. A second flask blooming molecular flowers from its mouth. A second glassware collection of beakers, flasks, test tubes, funnels, and droppers. A landscape with mountains and forest contained inside a glass flask.

Wander through the lab. An atomic orbital with central nucleus and electron paths. Five potion bottles on a shelf with cork stoppers and colored liquids. A spiral galaxy of orbiting atoms around a central flask. A split yin-yang flask with suspended molecule and liquid layers.

Keep going. A botanical plant sprouting from a test tube with roots and spiral leaves. A bubble molecular structure rising from a liquid container. A crystal compound with geometric facets and a leaf-shaped base. A microscope with segmented optical and mechanical components. A complex polymer chain of bonded spheres. A swirling-vapor cauldron with little feet. A test tube pouring liquid onto a crystalline mineral. A classic atom model with orbiting electrons and concentric rings. A molecular tree with branching atoms as leaves and fruit. An industrial chemistry facility of labs, towers, and reactors. A flowing vapor plume rising from a conical flask. And to close, a radial flask cluster with a central atom surrounded by eight curved flasks.

There's a reason coloring sticks around. It gives a busy mind somewhere to land, and in this case that somewhere is the etched line of a beaker or the orbital of an electron. Some pages are bold and forgiving. Others will eat a whole afternoon. Works fine with colored pencils, fine-tip markers, or gel pens.

If you know someone with a periodic table shower curtain, a friend who teaches AP Chem and lives for it, or anyone who's read every Oliver Sacks essay, this is for them. It's also for the person who'd quietly rather shade a flask on a Saturday than scroll.

Open the burette.

Inside you'll find 24 scenes: a fullerene cage of carbon atoms, a glassware bench with beakers and flasks, an alchemical lab with bubbling flasks, a molecular reaction chamber, a molecular cloud from a flask, a flask blooming molecular flowers, a second glassware collection, a landscape inside a flask, an atomic orbital with electrons, five potion bottles on a shelf, a spiral galaxy of atoms around a flask, a yin-yang flask with suspended molecule, a plant sprouting from a test tube, a bubble structure rising from liquid, a crystal compound with leaf base, a segmented microscope, a polymer chain of spheres, a cauldron with vapor and feet, a test tube pouring on a mineral, a classic atom model, a branching molecular tree, an industrial chemistry facility, a vapor plume from a flask, and a radial cluster of curved flasks around a central atom.