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#1 Kerosene is a liquid made of carbon-based molecules that, on the atomic scale, looks like spaghetti. Olive oil is a gloopy liquid made of carbon-based molecules that, on the atomic scale, looks more like twirled spaghetti.
#2 The Persian physician and alchemist Rhazes developed special chemical procedures to extract kerosene, a liquid made of carbon-based molecules...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
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256 pages cm
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"Set over the course of a flight from London to San Francisco, Liquid Rules offers readers a fascinating tour of these formless substances, told through the language of molecules, droplets, heartbeats, and ocean waves. Throughout the trip, we encounter fluids within the plane?from a seemingly ordinary cup of tea to a liquid crystal display screen?and without, in the volcanoes of Iceland, the frozen expanse of Greenland, and the marvelous California...
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