Dies ist eine Beziehungsgeschichte, deren Hauptpersonen beim Sonnenbaden eine au?erst wichtige Rolle spielen: das Licht und die Materie. Dass Sonnenlicht unsere Haut warmen und braunen kann, wissen wir. Doch Licht und Materie konnen noch ganz andere Dinge: Wer hatte gedacht, dass Licht nicht nur warmen, sondern auch kuhlen kann? Oder dass man mit gebundeltem Licht nicht nur Locher ins Papier brennen, sondern auch ganz winzig kleine, einzelne Ato ...
Georg Schwedts Bucher, in denen er chemische Elemente und Prozesse im Alltag aufspurt und spannende Experimente daraus entwickelt, sind Bestsellergaranten. «Chemie in der Weltliteratur» verbindet Schwedts Leidenschaft fur das Stoffliche mit der fur die Literatur. Seit seinen Studientagen liest er sich begeistert durch die gro?en Werke der Literatur: naturlich mit einem besonderen Blick fur alles Chemische. In seiner gro?en Gesamtschau findet sic ...
Droughts are a major hazard to both natural and human-dominated environments and those, especially of long duration and high intensity, can be highly damaging and leave long-lasting effects. This book describes the climatic conditions that give rise to droughts, and their various forms and chief attributes. Past droughts are described including those that had severe impacts on human societies. As a disturbance, droughts can be thought of as “ram ...
Metal-organic frameworks represent a new class of materials that may solve the hydrogen storage problem associated with hydrogen-fueled vehicles. In this first definitive guide to metal-organic framework chemistry, author L. MacGillivray addresses state-of-art developments in this promising technology for alternative fuels. Providing professors, graduate and undergraduate students, structural chemists, physical chemists, and chemical engineers w ...
Cyclodextrins in Pharmaceutics, Cosmetics, and Biomedicine covers a wide range of knowledge on cyclodextrins, from an overview of molecular and supramolecular aspects of cyclodextrin physicochemistry, to the latest outcomes in cyclodextrin use and future possibilities in the employment of these systems. This book focuses on the derivatives and physicochemical and biological properties of cyclodextrins, and considers drug delivery through topical ...
Systematically covering all the latest developments in the field, this is a comprehensive and handy introduction to metal-metal bonding. The chapters follow a uniform, coherent structure for a clear overview, allowing readers easy access to the information. The text covers such topics as synthesis, properties, structures, notable features, reactivity and examples of applications of the most important compounds in each group with metal-metal bond ...
Ausgereizte oder ausgereifte Argumente?: Christian Synwoldt bietet sachliche Orientierung in einer emotional gefuhrten Energiedebatte Naturliche Ressourcen fur die Energiegewinnung werden knapp – wir wissen das. Doch was tun? Sind neue Technologien und Energieeffizienz der Konigsweg zu einer nachhaltigen Energieversorgung? Konnen Kohlekraftwerke der nachsten Generation klimaneutral arbeiten? Ist Photovoltaik der Heilige Gral der Stromerzeugung? ...
Winner of the Marsh Book of the Year Award 2012 by the British Ecological Society. In A Resource-Based Habitat View for Conservation Roger Dennis introduces a novel approach to the understanding of habitats based on resources and conditions required by organisms and their access to them, a quantum shift from simplistic and ineffectual notions of habitats as vegetation units or biotopes. In drawing attention to what organisms actually use and nee ...
A comprehensive and readily accessible work for studying the physics of ionized gases, based on «Physics of Ionized Gases». The focus remains on fundamentals rather than on the details required for interesting but difficult applications, such as magnetic confinement fusion, or the phenomena that occur with extremely high-intensity short-pulse lasers. However, this new work benefits from much rearranging of the subject matter within each topic, r ...