| Description |
170 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm |
| Series |
Very short introductions ; 101 |
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Very short introductions ; 101
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| Contents |
1. Engineers of the Invisible: Making molecules -- 2. Vital Signs: The molecules of life -- 3. Take the Strain: Materials from molecules -- 4. The Burning Issue: Molecules and energy -- 5. Good Little Movers: Molecular motors -- 6. Delivering the Message: Molecular communication -- 7. The Chemical Computer: Molecular informatoin |
| Summary |
The processes in a single living cell are akin to that of a city teeming with molecular inhabitants that move, communicate, cooperate, and compete. In this book, the author explores the role of the molecule in and around us - how, for example, a single fertilized egg can grow into a multicelled Mozart, what makes a spider's silk insoluable in the morning dew, and how this molecular dynamism is being captured in the laboratory, promising to reinvent chemistry as the central creative science of the century |
| Notes |
First published as: Stories of the invisible, 2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 161) and index |
| Subject |
Molecules -- Popular works.
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Chemistry -- Popular works.
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| Genre/Form |
Popular works.
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| Author |
Ball, Philip, 1962-
Stories of the invisible
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| LC no. |
2004297610 |
| ISBN |
0192854305 |
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