The material world / Rodney Cotterill.

By:

Cotterill, Rodney, 1933-2007

Contributor(s):

Cotterill, Rodney, 1933-2007. Cambridge guide to the material world

Language: İngilizce Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008Edition: New expanded edDescription: x, 593 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cmISBN:

9780521451475 (hardback)
0521451477 (hardback)

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

QC173.3 .C68 2008

Contents:

_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

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Vol info	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Merkez Kütüphane Genel Koleksiyon / Main Collection	Merkez Kütüphane	Genel Koleksiyon	QC173.3 .C68 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	1	Available		0029234

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

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