From Stars to Stalagmites

From Stars to Stalagmites
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Publisher : World Scientific
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9789814324977
ISBN-13 : 9814324973
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Book Synopsis From Stars to Stalagmites by : Paul S. Braterman

Download or read book From Stars to Stalagmites written by Paul S. Braterman and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. The age of the Earth: an age-old question. Who thought what and when, and why -- 2. Atoms old and new. From Democritus to Rutherford -- 3. The banker who lost his head. Lavoisier, gunpowder, revolution, and the birth of modern chemistry -- 4. From particles to molecules, with a note on homoeopathy Dalton, Avogadro, Cannizzaro; why did it take so long for the penny to drop? -- 5. The discovery of the noble gases - what's so new about neon? A tiny difference in density leads to a whole new group of elements -- 6. Science, war, and morality; the tragedy of Fritz Haber. Ammonia, explosives, fertiliser, gas warfare, and the most unintended of consequences -- 7. The ozone hole story - a mystery with three suspects. Volcano, refrigerator, or jet plane? -- 8. Rain gauge, thermometer, calendar, warning. What a stalagmite tells us about climate past; what history tells us about climate future -- 9. Making metal. Iron from the sky. Philistines and Phoenicians. Domestic uses of arsenic. Eros in Piccadilly. The jet age -- 10. In praise of uncertainty. Unavoidable, and a good thing too -- 11. Everything is fuzzy. And the smaller, the fuzzier. Waves are particles. Particles are waves. Crisis in the atom -- 12. Why things have shapes. Lewis's magic cubes. Stealing, sharing, double counting. The power of repulsion -- 13. Why grass is green or why our blood is red. An old question answered. From sunlight to sugar. A brief history of colour vision. Blood and iron -- 14. Why water is weird. Fragile bonds. Floating ice and foreign policy. Molecular recognition and the molecules of life -- 15. The Sun, the Earth, the greenhouse. Yellow-hot sun, infrared-warm Earth. When it comes to carbon dioxide, more is more. Disinformation and denialism -- 16. In the beginning. From Big Bang to small planet. The birth and death of stars. Size matters. The making of the elements. Vital dust


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