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H2O: A Biography of Water by Philip Ball (Paperback, 2000)
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The extent to which water remains a scientific mystery is extraordinary, despite its prevalence and central importance on Earth. We live on a watery planet yet in many ways we know so little about H2O.
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The extent to which water remains a scientific mystery is extraordinary, despite its prevalence and central importance on Earth. Whether one considers its role in biology, its place in the physical world (where it refuses to obey the usual rules of liquids) or its deceptively simple structure, there is still no complete answer to the question: what is water Philip Ball's book explains what, exactly, we do and do not know about the strange character of this most essential and ubiquitous of substances. H20 begins by transporting its readers back to the Big Bang and the formation of galaxies to witness the birth of water's constituent elements: hydrogen and oxygen. It then explains how the primeval oceans were formed four billion years ago; where water is to be found on other planets; why ice floats when most solids sink; why, despite being highly corrosive, water is good for us; why there are at least fifteen kinds of ice and perhaps two kinds of liquid water; how scientists have consistently misunderstood water for centuries; and why wars have been waged over it. Philip Ball's gloriously offbeat and intelligent book conducts us on a journey through the history of science, folklore, the wilder scientific fringes, cutting-edge physics, biology and ecology, to give a fascinating new perspective on life and the substance that sustains it. After reading this book, drinking a glass of water will never be the same again.Product Identifiers
PublisherOrion Publishing Group
ISBN-139780753810927
eBay Product ID (ePID)89152818
Product Key Features
Number of Pages400 Pages
Publication NameH2O: a Biography of Water
LanguageEnglish
SubjectScience
Publication Year2000
TypeTextbook
AuthorPhilip Ball
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height137 mm
Item Weight345 g
Item Width201 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorPhilip Ball
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- 23 Oct, 2024
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Engaging book, well written by a prolific author who is both a physics and a chemistry graduate who regularly lectures at the Royal Institution. The book covers also the cultural and geographic aspects of H2O as well as the science.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
