| Publication |
Great Britain, Oxford University Press, 1999.
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| Description |
118pRed Spine
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| Series |
World of Science
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| Summary/Abstract |
This book provides a comprehensive and unified account of the structure and properties of crystalline binary adducts. Perhaps better known as molecular complexes and compounds, these crystals are currently estimated (from molecular recognition studies) to make up one quarter of the world's crystals, providing evidence for some sort of special attraction between the two components. DNA is perhaps the most famous example but others (hydrates, solvates, host-guest inclusion complexes,donor-acceptor compounds) pervade the whole body of solid state chemistry.
Includes projects and questions at the end of every chapter.
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| Contents |
How to be a scientist
Life and living things
What is life?
Life processes
The meaning of life
Seeking out cells
Finding out: Using a microscope
Common features of cells
Special features of cells
Finding out: Investigating animal cells
Finding out: Investigating plant cells
Specialized cells
Tissues and organs
Systems (1)
Systems (2)
Systems in mammals
Making mixtures
Melting and boiling
Evaporation
Finding out: Heating water
Changes on cooling
Dissolving
Crystals
Finding out: Crystals from a melt
Finding out: Crystals from a solution
Colloids
Making a cake
Combustion
Mass changes on combustion
The discovery of oxygen
The theory of combustion
Acids, alkalies, indicators
Finding out: Red cabbage as an indicator
Acid and alkali strength
Carbonates and acid
Finding out: Heating substances
Physical and chemical changes
Electricity/Charge
Electricity on the move
Circuits and symbols
Using switches
Measuring current
A series of things
Current in series circuits
Finding out: Current in series circuits
In parallel
Current in parallel circuits
Finding out: Current in parallel circuits
How bright?
Getting charged up
Variation, classification, and keys
Everyone is different
Vive la difference!
Finding out: Looking at variation
Sorting out millions
Kingdoms of life
Plant body plans
Animal body plans
A biologist's solution
The key to life
Separating mixtures
Pure substances
Pure salt from rock salt
Finding out: Purification of rock salt
Pure water from sea water
Further distillation
Mixing liquids
Separating ethanol and water
Uses of fractional distillation
Separating dyes
Chromatography
Finding out: Orange squash dyes
Forces
Pushing and pulling
Getting going
Finding out: Travelling downhill
Slowing down
Forces out of balance? 1
Forces out of balance? 2
The earth's pull
Air can push
Finding out: Falling down
Sinking
Floating
Raising a wreck
Forces that stretch
Finding out: Springs
Using springs
Sex in plants and animals
The idea of reproduction
Sexy flowers
Finding out: Flower structure
The go-betweens
Plants really do mate
Finding out: Pollen and pollen tubes
The human life cycle
Human reproduction - male
Human reproduction - female
Menstrual cycle/ fertilization
The baby grows
Metals
What is a metal?
Finding out: Metals
Reaction of metals
Metals and non-metals
Metals and alloys
Corrosion of metals
Getting metals from rocks
Finding out: Lead from lead oxide
Recycling metals
Magnetism
Magnets
A magnetic compass
Magnetic forces
Magnetic fields
Finding out: Magnetic fields
Using magnets
Induced magnetism
Index
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| Standard Number |
0199146977 Pb.
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