Caesar's last breath : decoding the secrets of the air around us / Sam Kean.

Author
Kean, Sam [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2017]
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Electronic book.
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Electronic reproduction. New York Little, Brown and Company 2017 Available via World Wide Web.
Contents
  • Introduction: The last breath
  • I: Making air : our first four atmospheres. Earth's early air
  • The exploding lake
  • The devil in the air
  • Welding a dangerous weapon
  • The curse and blessing of oxygen
  • Hotter than the Dickens
  • II: Harnessing air : the human relationship with air. The wonder-working gas of delight
  • Le Pétomane
  • Controlled chaos
  • Steeling yourself for tragedy
  • Into the blue
  • Night lights
  • III: Frontiers : the new heavens. The fallout of fallout
  • Albert Einstein and the people's fridge
  • Weather wars
  • Rumbles from Roswell
  • Putting on alien airs.
ISBN
9780316465199 (electronic bk.)
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