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(Number (ISBN
9781439803561 (hbk. : alk. paper)
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
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IR
Number
E-8595
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION OR PRODUCTlON
Country of publication
IR
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Water and life
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
:the unique properties of H2O
First Statement of Responsibility
/ edited by Ruth M. Lynden-Bell ... [et al.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Boca Raton, FL
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: CRC Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, c2010.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xviii, 370 p., [8] p. of plates
Other Physical Details
: ill. (some col.)
Dimensions
; 26 cm.
GENERAL NOTES
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On t.p. "2" is subscript.
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Print - Electronic
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Taking nothing for granted, this volume brings together great thinkers from across disciplines who discuss whether or not the physiochemical properties of water are biocentrically 'fine-tuned' for the existence and evolution of life.
Text of Note
Part I: This strange substance called "water". Is water an amniotic Eden or a corrosive Hell? Emerging perspectives on the strangest fluid in the universe / Simon Conway Morris and Ard A. Louis ; Water and life: friend or foe? / Felix Franks ; An introduction to the properties of water: which might be critical to biological processes? / John L. Finney ; Water as a biomolecule / Philip Ball ; Water's Hydrogen bond strength / Martin F. Chaplin -- Part II: The specific properties of water - how and why water is eccentric. Properties of liquids made from modified water models / Ruth M. Lynden-Bell and Pablo G. Debenedetti ; Understanding the unusual properites of water / Giancarlo Franzese and H. Eugene Stanley ; Counterfactual quantum chemisty of water / Wesley D. Allen and Henry F. Schaefer, III ; Properties of nanoconfined water / Branka M. Ladanyi -- Part III: Water in biochemistry. Water: constraining biological chemistry and the origin of life / Stever A. Benner ; Fine-tuning and small differences between large numbers / John L. Finney ; Fine-tuning protein stability / Carlos Warnick Pace, Abbas Razvi, and J. Martin Scholtz ; Water and information / Thomas C. B. McLeish ; Counterfactual biomolecular physics: protein folding and molecular recognition in water and other fluid environments / Peter G. Wolynes -- Part IV: Water, the solar system, and the origin of life. Sources of terrestrial and Martian water / Humberto Campins and Michael J. Drake ; Water: the tough-love parent of life / Veronica Vaida and Adrian F. Tuck ; What is the diversity of life in the cosmos? / Peter D. Ward ; The primordial bubble: water, symmetry-breaking, and the origin of life / Louis Lerman ; Liquids, biopolymers, and evolvability: case studies in counterfactual water-life / Wilson C. K. Poon -- Part V: Water - the human dimension. Some early responses to the special properties of water / Colin A. Russell ; Lawrence Henderson's natural teleology / Bruce H. Weber ; Water: a navigible channel from science to God? / Alister E. McGrath.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Water--Composition
Biomolecules.
Life (Biology)
Water chemistry.
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
546
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22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QD169
Book number
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W3
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W33
2010
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Lynden-Bell, Ruth Marion
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