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The many lives of carbon /
"In its pure form carbon can be the soft graphite in a pencil or an immensely hard diamond. It is the basic building block of most of the cells in our bodies. Carbon attracts, and one of the most crucial relationships it forms is with oxygen, producing carbon dioxide, the gas vital to life on e...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Norwegian |
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London, UK :
Reaktion Books Ltd,
2017.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Imprint Page; Contents; Part I: Carbon, Carbon Everywhere; Carbon in Everything; Fire Explained; The Master of Disguise: Soft, Hard and Round; Nylon Tights and their Descendants; Carbon on Wheels; Plastic Fantastic; Synthias as a Carbon Company; To Build and to Burn: Carbon in the Life Equation; From C3 to C4
- and the World's Most Important Protein; Atomic Physics's Solution to Photosynthesis; Photosynthesis in Reverse; Good Neighbours; C and 4H: A Hot Partnership; The Benefits of Methane; Archaea; Part II: The C in Cycle; The Keeling Curve; A Swede before His Time.
- One or Many Cycles?Pyramids, Chains and Webs; The Carbon Queen Emiliania; Borealis; Paradise Lost; The Long Carbon Cycle; The Anthropocene; Gaia and Feedbacks; Bluer and More Acidic; Methane Bombs; Between a Snowball and Hell; Oxygen's Evolution; Nitrogen and Phosphorus: The Great Circulatory Changes; Part III: The Footprint; Paradise Lost II; Shoe Size; How Bad are Bananas?; Petroholism's Withdrawal; Afterlives; References; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index.