EAN: 9783031237485

SURFACE VOLUME - ALAN E RUBIN KARTONIERT (TB)

This book explains that diffusion  osmosis  dissolution  evaporation  and heat loss all
preferentially affect small bodies due to their high surface volume ratios. Because surface
area increases as the square of length  but volume (and mass) increase as the cube  large
objects have low surface volume ratios and small objects have high surface volume ratios. This
simple physical constraint governs much of the physical world. It accounts for why the Earth
has active volcanoes  but the Moon does not  why the human brain has numerous folds  why
deciduous trees lose their leaves every Fall  and why nanoparticles of gold melt at
surprisingly low temperatures. It is a phenomenon well known to every scientist  but this book
is the first comprehensive treatment of this effect.

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