The historic search for atoms and their stellar origins is truly one of the greatest detective stories of science. Chown successfully makes these massive concepts accessible for students, professionals, and science enthusiasts as his exploration sheds light on all of us, for in essence, we are all stardust.
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The historic search for atoms and their stellar origins is truly one of the greatest detective stories of science. Chown successfully makes these massive concepts accessible for students, professionals, and science enthusiasts as his exploration sheds light on all of us, for in essence, we are all stardust.
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New. 2000. New Ed. Paperback. One of the greatest detective stories in the history of science reveals how astronomers and nuclear physicists deduced where the elements in our bodies come from. It is both the story of atoms and the story of stars. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ; PGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Good in good dust jacket. Outline: -Every atom in our bodies has an extraordinary history. Our blood our food our books our clothes-everything contains atoms forged in blistering furnaces deep inside stars which were blown into space by those stars` cataclysmic explosions and deaths. From red giants-stars so enormous they could engulf a million suns-to supernova explosions-the most violent events in the universe-the birth of every atom was marked by cosmic events on an enormous scale against a backdrop of unimaginable heat and cold brightness and darkness space and time. But how did we discover the astonishing truth about our cosmic origins THE MAGIC FURNACE is Marcus Chown`s extraordinary account of how scientists unravelled the mystery of atoms and helped to explain the dawn of life. It is one of the greatest detective stories in the history of science. In fact it is two puzzles intertwined for the stars contain the key to unlocking the secret of atoms and the atoms the solution to the secret of stars. -> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Vintage Books The date of this copy is 2000 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK.
