Full name: Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives

Author: Mark Miodownik Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780544850194 054485019X

This fascinating new book by the bestselling scientist and engineer Mark Miodownik is an expert tour of the world of the droplets, heartbeats, and ocean waves that we come across every day. Structured around a plane journey that sees encounters with substances from water and glue to coffee and wine, Liquid Rules shows how these liquids can bring death and destruction as well as wonder and fascination.From László Bíró's revolutionary pen and Abraham Gesner's kerosene to cutting-edge research on self-repairing roads and liquid computers, Miodownik uses his winning formula of scientific storytelling to bring the everyday to life. He reveals why liquids can flow up a tree but down a hill, why oil is sticky, how waves can travel so far, and how to make the perfect cup of tea. Here are the secret lives of substances. Similar books: Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik Inflight Science by Brian Clegg What Einstein Told His Barber by Robert L. Wolke Ignorance by Stuart Firestein How to Fossilize Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare 13 Things That Don't Make Sense by Michael Brooks The Canon by Natalie Angier Chemical Chaos by Nick Arnold Fool Me Twice by Shawn Lawrence Otto Periodic Tales by Hugh Aldersey-Williams How Things Are by John Brockman Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition by Ed Regis The Elements by Philip Ball The Where, the Why, and the How by Matt Lamothe The Elements by Theodore W. Gray