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An adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science. Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? Why does any material look and behave the way it does? These are the sorts of questions that Mark Miodownik a globally-renowned materials scientist has spent his life exploring In this book he examines the materials he encounters in a typical morning, from the steel in his razor and the graphite in his pencil to the foam in his sneakers and the concrete in a nearby skyscraper.
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Stuff Matters, Mark Miodownik
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- Pubblicato
- 2014
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- Titolo
- Stuff Matters
- Sottotitolo
- Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Mark Miodownik
- Editore
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Pubblicato
- 2014
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 272
- ISBN10
- 0544236041
- ISBN13
- 9780544236042
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Tema stórico, Scienza, USA, Tecnologia, Design, Fisica, Chimica, Ingegneria Meccanica, Libri più venduti, Storia della tecnologia
- Descrizione
- An adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science. Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? Why does any material look and behave the way it does? These are the sorts of questions that Mark Miodownik a globally-renowned materials scientist has spent his life exploring In this book he examines the materials he encounters in a typical morning, from the steel in his razor and the graphite in his pencil to the foam in his sneakers and the concrete in a nearby skyscraper.