Have you ever wondered if certain chemicals can make you irresistible to the opposite sex? Well James May certainly has, and with a little help from his motion graphic friends, he’ll distill the sensuous secrets and explain how our world is really just one big laboratory. Along the way he’ll reveal that what you flush down your toilet could actually be making you money, how the booze in your bottle could power a jet and why the elements in the periodic table are just like us – they don’t all get along! Join James as he discovers what sorcerers and scientists have wondered for centuries, whether we can turn lead into gold - and if you’re lucky, he just might share chemistry’s secret to eternal life.

化学是让很多人都晕头胀脑的学科，但事实上它跟做饭很相似，选好原料，在碗里或者烧杯里搅拌搅拌，最终得到各种各样奇怪的混合物。不过对于化学来说，你最好还是不要舔勺子。我们要向一组专家探寻真理，提问一些令人费解的问题，例如：为什么物体会爆炸?我可以把铅变成黄金吗?还有为什么有人想要我的尿液?让我们一起研究你应该知道的化学。