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100 1 $aSegrè, Gino.
240 10 $aMatter of degrees
245 10 $aEinstein's refrigerator :$btales of the hot and cold /$cGino Segrè.
260 $aLondon :$bAllen Lane,$c2003, ©2002.
300 $a320 pages :$billustrations, maps, portraits ;$c21 cm
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500 $aOriginally published as: A matter of degrees. New York : Viking Penguin, 2002.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: The ruler, the clock and the thermometer -- 1. 37 (Constant temperature ; Into the Sahara ; Into the Antarctic ; When things go wrong ; Shocks from heat) -- 2. Measure for measure (The first sparks ; The thermometer's four inventors ; The Count from Massachusetts ; Steam power ; Thermodynamics' three laws ; Entropy and life) -- 3. Reading the Earth (Copernicus's harmony ; The minister, the lawyer and the fosil fish expert ; Cycles of ice ; The tundra's blossom ; El Niňo, old and new ; Greenhouse effect: the basic science ; Greehouse effect: the history ; Greenhouse effect: the politics)
505 0 $a4. Life in the extremes (Barton and Beebe's bathysphere ; Clambake I: hydrothermal vents ; Some like it hot ; Snowball Earth ; The third branch of life ; Melting the Earth ; Extraterrestrial life ; Life under two miles of ice) -- 5. Messages from the Sun (At the core ; Cosmic gall ; A thermal aside: Gamow, Rutherford and nuclear barriers ; A star is born ; Black holes and little green men ; The founding elements: hydrogen and helium ; Three-degree photons, two-degree neutrinos ; The Big Bang and the Big Crunch) -- 6. The quantum leap (Faraday's perfect gases ; The last liquid ; Superconductivity ; Duality, exclusion, and uncertainty ; The low-temperature world ; Einstein's refrigerator ; Chandra's journey ; Into the future)
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