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Sand and Silicon: Science that Changed the World McWhan, Denis (Retired from Bell Telephone Laboratories and Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
Sand and Silicon: Science that Changed the World
McWhan, Denis (Retired from Bell Telephone Laboratories and Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
This is a story about sand and how science and silicon changed our lives. Over the last century science taught us to take this common material and make the products on which we depend - computer chips, solar cells and optical fibres. This book relates the underlying scientific discoveries to the products made from sand.
160 pages, 34 b/w line drawings, 23 b/w halftones
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 24, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199640270 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 160 |
| Dimensions | 164 × 240 × 15 mm · 430 g |
| Language | English |