The Chemical Cosmos: A Guided Tour

by Steve Miller

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1441984437

ISBN13:9781441984432

Release Date:October 2011

Publisher:Springer

Length:236 Pages

Weight:0.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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