The Chemical cosmos : a guided tour
If you have ever wondered how we get from the awesome impersonality of the Big Bang universe to the point where living creatures can start to form, and evolve into beings like you, your friends and your family, wonder no more. Steve Miller provides us with a tour through the chemical evolution of th...
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| Formato: | Livre numérique |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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New York :
Springer
2012.
Cham : Springer Nature |
| Colección: | Astronomers' universe
Astronomers Universe |
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès sur la plateforme de l'éditeur Accès sur la plateforme Istex Accès Université d'Orléans Accès INSA CVL |
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Notice rédigée d'aprés la consultation du 2014-03-21 Pagination aprés impression : XII-236 p. Titre provenant de la page de titre du document numérisé Archives Springer e-books (Licence nationale) Archives Springer e-books (Licence nationale) Type of computer file: Format PDF |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • The Chemical cosmos, a guided tour, Steve Miller, New York, Springer, 2012, 1 vol. (XII-236 p.), Astronomers' universe, 978-1-4419-8443-2 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue
- Purple haze: introducing our guide
- The early universe: the source of chemistry and of our guide
- Shooting the rapids: the life, and death, of the earliest starlight
- Interlude - how our guide is hooked, lost and caught again
- Heading downstream and cooking by starlight
- Fishing for molecules
- Branching out: in the land of the giants and dwarves
- Interlude - trawling for our cosmic guide
- In the delta: exoplanets - worlds, but not as we know them
- Towards the sea of life
- Epilogue
- Annotated references and further reading to chapters
- Some useful numbers
- Index