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Mega Molecules: Tales of Adhesives, Bread, Diamonds, Eggs, Fibers, Foams, Gelatin, Leather, Meat, Plastics, Resists, Rubber, ... and Cabbages and Kings

Mega Molecules: Tales of Adhesives, Bread, Diamonds, Eggs, Fibers, Foams, Gelatin, Leather, Meat, Plastics, Resists, Rubber, ... and Cabbages and Kings


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All life is based on big molecules, scientifically called "mac- romolecules". Humans, animals, and plants cease to exist without these structural, reserve, and transport molecules. No life can be propagated without macromolecular DNA and RNA. Without macromolecules, we would only dine on water, sugars, fats, vitamins and salts but had to relinquish meat, eggs, cereals, vegetables, and fruits. We would not live in houses since wood and many stones consist of macromole- cules. Without macromolecules, no clothes since all fibers are made from macromolecules. No present-day car could run: All tires are based on macromolecules. Without macromole- cules no photographic films, no electronics ... If macromolecules are so important then why is commonly so little known about their roles and why are they so little mentioned in school, if at all? As often in human history, tra- dition is important and science makes no exception. Chemis- try was established as the chemistry of low molecular weight compounds since these were most easy to investigate, charac- terize, and convert. A beautiful tower of thought was erected by the chemical sciences long before the idea of giant mole- cules, macromolecules, took hold. There was no space for newcomers in this tower. Even today one can learn about chemistry without hearing a word about macromolecules.

Table of Contents:
1 Genuine Plastics and Other Natural Products.- 2 In the Beginning was the Deed.- 2.1 From Rubber to Elastomers.- 2.2 Cotton and Its Children.- 2.3 The First Plastics.- 3 How Big is Big?.- 3.1 Atoms and Molecules.- 3.2 Chemical Elements and Compounds.- 3.3 Valences and Bonds.- 3.4 Isotopes.- 3.5 Masses and Molar Masses.- 4 False Doctrines.- 4.1 The Discovery of Polymerizations.- 4.2 Carbon Chains.- 4.3 What is a Polymer?.- 4.4 Necessity Fathers Inventions.- 5 The Mysterious Crazy Glue.- 5.1 Macromolecules Step by Step.- 5.2 The Art of High Conversions.- 5.3 Macromolecules in One Stroke.- 5.4 Giants and Their Functionalities.- 6 Corn Syrup and Hi-Tech.- 6.1 Grass and Card-Board.- 6.2 Sweet Potatoes and Tough Meat.- 6.3 Plastics Waste and Electronics.- 7 Engine Oils and Vanilla Sauces.- 7.1 Leftists are Less Preferred.- 7.2 Coils.- 7.3 Secrets of Engine Oils.- 8 Screwing Up Things.- 8.1 Deterministic Coincidences.- 8.2 Tactful Molecules.- 8.3 Helices and No End.- 8.4 Expedient Packaging.- 8.5 Foaming Spaghetti and Bursting Eggs.- 8.6 TV Dinners and Stale Bread.- 9 Spiders, Weavers, and Webs.- 9.1 Silk, Artificial Silk, and Polyester.- 9.2 Wool, Cotton, and Acrylics.- 9.3 Paper and Leather.- 10 How to Iron Correctly.- 10.1 Glasses and Glass Transitions.- 10.2 Ironing and Shaving.- 10.3 Plasticizers.- 11 From Cheap Substitutes to High Performance Materials.- 11.1 Thermoplastics and Thermosets.- 11.2 Stronger than Steel.- 11.3 Unity Creates Strength.- 12 Everything Flows.- 12.1 Deborah and the Tennis Rackets.- 12.2 Entangled Knee-Joints.- 12.3 Rubbers, Gums, and Elastomers.- 12.4 Physical Vulcanizations.- 13 In and Out.- 13.1 From Moses to Marmelade.- 13.2 Dreaming of Better Foams.- 13.3 All the Things One Packages.- 13.4 Sticking Together and Holding Apart.- 14 Charges andCurrents.- 14.1 Siemens Inverts Ohm.- 14.2 Insulators and Xerox.- 14.3 How to Convert Insulators into Conductors.- Suggested Readings.- SI Prefixes and Common Names of Numbers.- Physical Units in the SI System.- Conversion of Some Anglo-Saxon Units.- Symbols, Names, Atomic Numbers, and Relative Atomic Masses of Chemical Elements.- Some Trade Names and Trivial Names of Polymers.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783540175414
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 202
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 133 mm
  • ISBN-10: 3540175415
  • Publisher Date: 25 May 1987
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Tales of Adhesives, Bread, Diamonds, Eggs, Fibers, Foams, Gelatin, Leather, Meat, Plastics, Resists, Rubber, ... and Cabbages and Kings


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