The material world /
Cotterill, Rodney, 1933-2007
The material world / Rodney Cotterill. - New expanded ed. - x, 593 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Includes index. Previous ed.: published as The Cambridge guide to the material world. 1985.
_The great mediator: water --
_To the organic world: carbon -- Solo atoms: electrons, nuclei and quanta -- Atomic duets: the chemical bond -- Atoms in concert: states of matter -- Patterns within patterns: perfect crystals -- The inevitable flaw: imperfect crystals -- From mine, quarry and well: minerals -- Almost forever: Ceramics -- Monarchs of the cave: metals -- The busy electron: conductors and insulators -- A mysterious harmony: glass -- Strangeness in proportion: liquid crystals -- Of snakes and ladders: polymers -- The vital threads: biopolymers -- The essential bag: the cell -- Mortal coils: the organism -- A place in the Sun: the plant -- Mandatory hunter: the animal -- Enchanted loom: the mind -- Index
9780521451475 (hardback) 0521451477 (hardback)
Matter--Properties
Madde--Özellikler
QC173.3 / .C68 2008
The material world / Rodney Cotterill. - New expanded ed. - x, 593 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Includes index. Previous ed.: published as The Cambridge guide to the material world. 1985.
_The great mediator: water --
_To the organic world: carbon -- Solo atoms: electrons, nuclei and quanta -- Atomic duets: the chemical bond -- Atoms in concert: states of matter -- Patterns within patterns: perfect crystals -- The inevitable flaw: imperfect crystals -- From mine, quarry and well: minerals -- Almost forever: Ceramics -- Monarchs of the cave: metals -- The busy electron: conductors and insulators -- A mysterious harmony: glass -- Strangeness in proportion: liquid crystals -- Of snakes and ladders: polymers -- The vital threads: biopolymers -- The essential bag: the cell -- Mortal coils: the organism -- A place in the Sun: the plant -- Mandatory hunter: the animal -- Enchanted loom: the mind -- Index
9780521451475 (hardback) 0521451477 (hardback)
Matter--Properties
Madde--Özellikler
QC173.3 / .C68 2008
