Eyewitness: Matter
by Chris Cooper Author
(From Amazon): Explore the amazing world of matter-from the earliest ideas about the four elements to the discoveries about the atom. DK gives a new look to the series that forever changed the nonfiction genre and set the standard for highly informative visual guides. This volume, and those to follow in future seasons, forms part of an indispensable library for the whole family. Focusing on contemporary and historical developments in the study of matter, this book features clear, expertly written text, color and black-and-white photos, charts, graphics, and 3-D models -- all of which combine to make complex scientific concepts easy to understand.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0-7894-4886-6
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 29
- Pages
- 64
- Publisher
- DK Children
- Copyright
- 1999
Chapters
- 1 What is matter?
- 2 Ideas of the Greeks
- 3 Investigating matter
- 4 Solid matter
- 5 The world of crystals
- 6 Metal and alloys
- 7 Properties of liquids
- 8 Gasses and their properties
- 9 Changes of state
- 10 Colloids and glasses
- 11 Mixtures and compounds
- 12 Conservation of matter
- 13 Burning matter
- 14 Charting the elements
- 15 The building blocks
- 16 Molecules
- 17 Molecules in motion
- 18 Carbon rings and chains
- 19 Living matter
- 20 Designing molecules
- 21 Radioactivity
- 22 Inside the atom
- 23 Electrons, shells and bonds
- 24 Architecture of the nucleus
- 25 Splitting the atom
- 26 Hot matter
- 27 Subatomic particles
- 28 The four forces
- 29 The birth and death of matter
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