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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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- 2014
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- Título
- Stuff Matters
- Subtítulo
- Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Mark Miodownik
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publicado en
- 2014
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- Páginas
- 272
- ISBN10
- 0544236041
- ISBN13
- 9780544236042
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Tema histórico, Ciencia, EE.UU., Tecnología, Diseño, Física, Química, Ingeniería, Libros más vendidos, Historia de la tecnología
- Descripción
- 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.