From Stars To Stalagmites: How Everything Connects
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From Stars To Stalagmites: How Everything Connects

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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From Stars To Stalagmites: How Everything Connects

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. The Age of the Earth — An Age-Old Question Who thought what and when, and why
  5. 2. Atoms Old and New From Democritus to Rutherford
  6. 3. The Banker Who Lost His Head Lavoisier, gunpowder, revolution, and the birth of modern chemistry
  7. 4. From Particles to Molecules, with A Note On Homoeopathy Dalton, Avogadro, Cannizzaro; why did it take so long for the penny to drop?
  8. 5. The Discovery of the Noble Gases — What’s so New About Neon? A tiny difference in density leads to a whole new group of elements
  9. 6. Science, War, and Morality; The Tragedy of Fritz Haber Ammonia, explosives, fertiliser, gas warfare, and the most unintended of consequences
  10. 7. The Ozone Hole Story — A Mystery with Three Suspects Volcano, refrigerator, or jet plane?
  11. 8. Rain Gauge, Thermometer, Calendar, Warning What a stalagmite tells us about climate past; what history tells us about climate future
  12. 9. Making Metal Iron from the sky. Philistines and Phoenicians. Domestic uses of arsenic. Eros in Piccadilly. The jet age
  13. 10. In Praise of Uncertainty Unavoidable, and a good thing too
  14. 11. Everything is Fuzzy And the smaller, the fuzzier. Waves are particles. Particles are waves. Crisis in the atom
  15. 12. Why Things Have Shapes Lewis’s magic cubes. Stealing, sharing, double counting. The power of repulsion
  16. 13. Why Grass is Green or Why Our Blood is Red An old question answered. From sunlight to sugar. A brief history of colour vision. Blood and iron
  17. 14. Why Water is Weird Fragile bonds. Floating ice and foreign policy. Molecular recognition and the molecules of life
  18. 15. The Sun, The Earth, The Greenhouse Yellow-hot sun, infrared-warm Earth. When it comes to carbon dioxide, more is more. Disinformation and denialism
  19. 16. In The Beginning From Big Bang to small planet. The birth and death of stars. Size matters. The making of the elements. Vital dust
  20. Endnotes
  21. Glossary
  22. Index