EAN: 9780241985595

MIODOWNIK MARK ITS A GAS

'A delight' Dara O Briain'A witty  smart writer who has a great talent' Bill GatesWhy are most
gases invisible  odourless and tasteless? Why do some poison us and others make us laugh? And
why do some power our engines while others make drinks fizzy? In It's a Gas  Mark Miodownik
masterfully reveals an invisible world through his unique brand of scientific storytelling.
Taking us back to that exhilarating - and often dangerous - moment when scientists tried to
work out exactly what they had discovered  Miodownik shows that gases are the formative
substances of our modern world  each with its own weird and wonderful personality. We see how
seventeenth-century laughing gas parties led to the first use of anaesthetics in surgery  how
the invention of the air valve in musical instruments gave us bicycles  cars and trainers  and
how gases made us masters of the sea (by huge steamships) and skies (via extremely flammable
balloons). This delight of a book reveals the immense importance of gases to modern
civilisation.

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