Molecules: A Very Short Introduction
Book 101 of Very Short Introductions
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 1, 2003
Words:
47062
Flesch:
60.86
DDC:
541.22
FAST Tags:
Molecules,
Chemistry
LCC:
QD461
LC Genre:
Mathematics and Science>Chemistry>Molecular structure
Book Details
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Description:
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 Very Short Introduction, Philip Ball explores the role of the molecule in and around us--how, for example, a single fertilized egg can grow into a multi-celled Mozart, what makes spider's silk insoluble 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.