John Barnett: Carbon, Gebunden
Carbon
- One Atom's Odyssey
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- Verlag:
- No Starch Press, 05/2021
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781718501225
- Artikelnummer:
- 10266409
- Umfang:
- 64 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 369 g
- Maße:
- 279 x 216 mm
- Stärke:
- 10 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 25.5.2021
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
An illustrated history of a single atom of carbon, tracing its many manifestations from the Big Bang to the present.
Carbon: One Atom's Odyssey is an illustrated adaptation of 'Carbon,' a short story from Italian chemist, writer, and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi. It traces the life story and many molecular manifestations of a single atom of this life-essential element.
You'll follow one atom from its spectacular birth 14 billion years ago through its harrowing journey on planet earth where it has become a basic building block of nearly 10 million known compounds in living things. Along the way, you'll learn that it is breathed in by the Peregrine Falcon; it is dissolved in the ocean before making its way back into the atmosphere; it is found in your pencil as well as in your liver; it helps trees grow strong and tall; and it even lets a moth's eye make sense of light.
