Robert M. Hazen

Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything

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A Science News Favorite Book of 2019An earth scientist reveals the dynamic biography of the most resonant—and most necessary—chemical element on Earth.Carbon. It's in the fibers in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe. It's worth billions of dollars as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity, but there are still mysteries about the element that can be both diamond and coal. Where does it come from, what does it do, and why, above all, does life need it? With poetic storytelling, Robert M. Hazen leads us on a global journey through the origin and evolution of life's most essential and ub… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-60944-8
EAN: 9780393609448
Produktnummer: 34249314
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 30'094 KB
Abbildungen: 8 pages of color illustrations

Über den Autor

Robert M. Hazen is executive director of the Deep Carbon Observatory based at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory and Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Sciences at George Mason University. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.