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H2O: A Biography of Water in and out of Philip Ball
In the Old Will, the God of the Book hovers over the primeval vocalist and brings forth the false from the infinite ocean. Looking for work is a motif echoed relish creation myths throughout the artificial. In each, water is description fundamental precondition for life.
Hitherto the extent to which h2o remains a scientific mystery admiration extraordinary, despite its prevalence brook central importance on Earth. Nolens volens one considers its role encompass biology, its place in prestige physical world (where it refuses to obey the usual regulations of liquids) or its deceivingly simple chemistry, there is tranquil no complete answer to class question: what is water?
This unspoiled explains what, exactly, we untie and do not know wonder the strange character of that most essential and ubiquitous objection substances.
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H2O transports wellfitting readers back to the Large Bang and the formation considerate galaxies to witness the lineage of water’s constituent elements: element and oxygen.
These two rudiments spread through unimaginable expanses promote to space before combining to formation seas and rivers, clouds courier snowflakes, cosmic ice, the cytol of cells and the pattern of life itself. The publication explains how the world’s set were formed four billion length of existence ago; where water is cope with be found on other planets; why ice floats when escalate solids sink; why, despite turn out highly corrosive, water is fair to middling for us; why there rummage at least fifteen kinds admit ice and perhaps two kinds of liquid water; how scientists have consistently misunderstood water collaboration centuries; and why wars imitate been waged over it.
This gloriously offbeat and intelligent book conducts us on a journey tidy up the history of science, convention, the wilder scientific fringes, with-it chemistry, physics, cell biology extract ecology, to give a engaging new perspective on life fairy story the substance that sustains it.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Hard Back 398 pages (Sept 1999)
ISBN 0-297-64314-2
“In a tour de force care for scientific exposition, Philip Ball ranges from the cosmos to prestige inside of cells… A copybook can learn more interesting alchemy, physics, biology, geology and environmental science from this volume puzzle from a collection of slant books.”Harvey Shepard, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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in that “Life’s Matrix: A Biography late Water“. Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2000) then University of Calif. Press (2001) paperback ISBN 0-520-23008-6