Taming the Atom: The Emergence of the Visible Microworld - Brossura

Baeyer, Hans Christian Von

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0679765344 ISBN 13: 9780679765349

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1995

Riassunto

The atomic hypothesis - that the universe consists of innumerable tiny particles in ceaseless motion - traces its roots to Greek antiquity, but until recently individual atoms remained theoretical conceptions far removed from the senses. Now technology has reached down into the abstract realm of the atom, and made it accessible to our eyes and fingertips. We have learned to catch, photograph, touch, and even modify atoms one by one. Thus, for the first time since the philosopher Democritus imagined it more than two thousand years ago, the atomic landscape has been revealed in lavish beauty, as in the cover illustration from the scanning tunneling micrograph shown below, which depicts a baker's dozen of iodine atoms bonded together in six-fold symmetry, with a gaping hole glowing yellow where one of their number is missing.

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Book by Von Baeyer Hans Christian Baeyer Hans Christian Vo

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679765344
• ISBN 13: 9780679765349
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Redattore: Disesa Susan