Comments on: Book review – Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives/2019/03/08/book-review-liquid-the-delightful-and-dangerous-substances-that-flow-through-our-lives/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:45:56 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/03/08/book-review-liquid-the-delightful-and-dangerous-substances-that-flow-through-our-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-5075Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:38:51 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3303#comment-5075[…] Movement three, Fire, is a complete change of pace. In a mere 30 pages, Hazen gives a brief overview of carbon’s role in all our stuff. From fuels to synthetic materials, carbon’s physical properties make it eminently suitable to a very wide range of applications, with nanotubes and graphene sheets promising a future of even strong and thinner materials. This section seems to have little to do with the DCO research programme, and there is no mention of the people behind the science or of particular breakthrough experiments. Instead, Hazen writes a pop-science section that reminded me of Miodownik’s recent book Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives. […]

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