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Molecules

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The processes in a single living cell are akin to that of a city teeming with molecular inhabitants that move, communicate, cooperate, and compete.

In this Very Short Introduction, Philip Ball explores the role of the molecule in and around us - how, for example, a single fertilized egg can grow into a multi-celled Mozart, what makes spider's silk insoluble in the morning dew, and how this molecular dynamism is being captured in the laboratory, promising to reinvent chemistry as the central creative science of the century.

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Oxford University Press
0192854305 / 9780192854308
Paperback / softback
541.222
27/11/2003
United Kingdom
English
[xii], 170 p. : ill.
18 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: as Stories of the invisible. 2001.