Water from Heaven : : The Story of Water from the Big Bang to the Rise of Civilization, and Beyond / / Robert Kandel.
From where-and what-does water come? How did it become the key to life in the universe? Water from Heaven presents a state-of-the-art portrait of the science of water, recounting how the oxygen needed to form H2O originated in the nuclear reactions in the interiors of stars, asking whether microcome...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2003] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 21 line drawings |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Prologue
- Part I. Water in the Universe from the Big Bang to the Appearance of Man
- Part II. Water in Today's World
- Part III. Water in Human History, Past and Future
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index