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It's a Gas - The Magnificent and Elusive Elements that Expand Our World (Hardcover)
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It's a Gas - The Magnificent and Elusive Elements that Expand Our World (Hardcover)
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List price R585
Loot Price R425
Discovery Miles 4 250
You Save R160 (27%)
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Why are most gases invisible, odourless and tasteless? Why do some
poison us and others make us laugh? And why do some power our engines
while others make drinks fizzy? In It's a Gas, Mark Miodownik
masterfully reveals an invisible world through his unique brand of
scientific storytelling.
Taking us back to that exhilarating – and often dangerous – moment when
scientists tried to work out exactly what they had discovered,
Miodownik shows that gases are the formative substances of our modern
world, each with its own weird and wonderful personality.
We see how seventeenth-century laughing gas parties led to the first
use of anaesthetics in surgery, how the invention of the air valve in
musical instruments gave us bicycles, cars and trainers, and how gases
made us masters of the sea (by huge steamships) and skies (via
extremely flammable balloons). This delight of a book reveals the
immense importance of gases to modern civilisation.
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