Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? Why does any material look and behave the way it does? These are the sorts of questions that Mark Miodownik is constantly asking himself. A globally-renowned materials scientist, Miodownik has spent his life exploring objects as ordinary as an envelope and as unexpected as concrete cloth, uncovering the fascinating secrets that hold together our physical world.
Stuff Matters - Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Mark Miodownik
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2013
272 páginas
9h 4m
ISBN-10: 0544236041
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