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- Why Things Break: Understanding the World by the Way It Comes Ap
- ISBN
- 9781400048830
- EAN
- 9781400048830
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Type
- Textbook
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Why Things Break: Understanding the World by the Way It Comes Apart
- Item Height
- 202mm
- Publisher
- Random House USA INC International Concepts
- Item Width
- 132mm
- Subject
- Science
- Item Weight
- 232g
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Did you know - It took more than an Iceberg to sink the Titanic The Challenger disaster was predicted Unbreakable glass dinnerware had its origin in railroad lanterns A football team cannot lose momentum Mercury thermometers are prohibited on airplanes for a crucial reason Why Things Break explores the fascinating question of what holds things together (for a while), what breaks them apart, and why the answers have a direct bearing on our everyday lives. When Mark Eberhart was growing up in the 1960s, he learned that splitting an atom leads to a terrible explosion - which prompted him to worry that when he cut into a stick of butter, he would inadvertently unleash a nuclear cataclysm. Years later, as a chemistry professor, he remembered this childhood fear when he began to ponder the fact that we know more about how to split an atom than we do about how a pane of glass breaks. In Why Things Break, Eberhart leads us on a remarkable and entertaining exploration of all the cracks, clefts, fissures, and faults examined in the field of materials science and the many astonishing discoveries that have been made about everything from the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger to the crashing of your hard drive. Understanding why things break is crucial to modern life on every level, from personal safety to macroeconomics, but as Eberhart reveals here, it is also an area of cutting-edge science that is as provocative as it is illuminating.
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Random House USA INC International Concepts
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9781400048830
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Publication Name
Why Things Break: Understanding the World by the Way It Comes Apart
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Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Science
Publication Year
2004
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Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
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202mm
Item Width
132mm
Item Weight
232g
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The upper corner pages were stained with coffee or similar and there was more on the front cover, which I removed, but the back cover has hardened food on it that I can’t remove. This is a gift so I’m disappointed. Came promptly however.
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