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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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- Année de publication
- 2014
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- Titre
- Stuff Matters
- Sous-titre
- Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Mark Miodownik
- Éditeur
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publié
- 2014
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN10
- 0544236041
- ISBN13
- 9780544236042
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Thème historique, Science, États-Unis, Technologie, Design, Physique, Chimie, Ingénierie, Meilleures ventes, Histoire de la technique
- Description
- 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.