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The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
"Excerpts from the Preface and Chapter 8: Materials Science, wedged as it is between the two better-known fields of Chemistry and Physics, teaches us that everything in our world is due to the interactions of atoms. If you can find out how they interact to make up the physical world, then you can also change the way that atoms act to make them do new things and, as we develop new materials, we …
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The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
One of the Best Summer Science Books of 2020 by Science Friday | Named one of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Science Books of 2020 | Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Science and Technology | Winner of the 2021 AAAS/Subaru SBF Prize in the Young Adult Science Book Category In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions—clocks, s…
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