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The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms by Marcus Chown (Paperback, 2000)
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Every atom in our bodies has an extraordinary history. Our blood, our food, our books, our clothes - everything contains atoms forged in blistering furnaces deep inside stars, which were blown into space by those stars' cataclysmic explosions and deaths.
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Every atom in our bodies has an extraordinary history. Our blood, our food, our books, our clothes - everything contains atoms forged in blistering furnaces deep inside stars, which were blown into space by those stars' cataclysmic explosions and deaths. From red giants - stars so enormous they could engulf a million suns - to supernova explosions - the most violent events in the universe - the birth of every atom was marked by cosmic events on an enormous scale, against a backdrop of unimaginable heat and cold, brightness and darkness, space and time. But how did we discover the astonishing truth about our cosmic origins? THE MAGIC FURNACE is Marcus Chown's extraordinary account of how scientists unravelled the mystery of atoms, and helped to explain the dawn of life. It is one of the greatest detective stories in the history of science. In fact, it is two puzzles intertwined, for the stars contain the key to unlocking the secret of atoms, and the atoms the solution to the secret of stars.Product Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780099578017
eBay Product ID (ePID)92061558
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Magic Furnace: the Search for the Origins of Atoms
AuthorMarcus Chown
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicScience, Astronomy, Physics
Publication Year2000
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Item Weight170g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorMarcus Chown
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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