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It's a Gas

The Magnificent and Elusive Elements that Expand Our World

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It's a Gas

Yazan: Mark Miodownik
Seslendiren: Daniel Weyman
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The secret life of gases - the strange, elusive and fascinating substances that shape our world, from the author of the best-selling, prize-winning Stuff Matters


Why are most gases invisible, odourless and tasteless? Why do some poison us and others make us laugh? And why do some power our engines while others make drinks fizzy? In It's a Gas, Mark Miodownik masterfully reveals an invisible world through his unique brand of scientific storytelling.

Taking us back to that exhilarating – and often dangerous – moment when scientists tried to work out exactly what they had discovered, Miodownik shows that gases are the formative substances of our modern world, each with its own weird and wonderful personality.

We see how seventeenth-century laughing gas parties led to the first use of anaesthetics in surgery, how the invention of the air valve in musical instruments gave us bicycles, cars and trainers, and how gases made us masters of the sea (by huge steamships) and skies (via extremely flammable balloons). This delight of a book reveals the immense importance of gases to modern civilisation.

'A delight' Dara O Briain

'A witty, smart writer who has a great talent' Bill Gates


©2023 Mark Miodownik (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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A delight (Dara O Briain)
It's not just a gas, it’s a blast. A brilliant, bracing journey though the past, present and future of the invisible stuff you can’t see, but is everywhere. (Ed Conway, author of Material World)
Hugely enjoyable. From the bouncy castle to poison gas, from The Wizard of Oz to cappuccinos, this book has it all: plenty of belly laughs, but also warnings about the state of our world (Andrea Sella, chemist and broadcaster)
With seamless storytelling and scientific flair, Mark unveils the captivating personalities of gases that fizz, pop, numb, smell, warm, and soar, illuminating the extraordinary role they play in our lives (Roger Highfield, Science Director at the Science Museum)
Mark Miodownik is an exceptionally talented scientist, writer and communicator, and in this book he brings the invisible world of gas to vivid, visible life (Sophie Scott, author of The Brain: 10 Things You Should Know)
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Quite interesting, Important to dscuss global warming but to suggest hard-pressed taxpayers should pay more tax to build a wall in the Maldives is pathetic.
Questions..
1. How much food is produced on the Maldive islands to feed the local population and all those tourists?
Answer: Not much, the Maldives is an example of a non-sustainable situation.

2. How many people were moved in 20 years in China?
Answer 400 million migrated from villages to cities, no deaths no big deal.

3. There are certain areas which are very vulnerable to sea level rise such as the Mekong delta but for most coastal communities the answer is either to build up/build a seawall or just move away to higher ground. No one is going to die from sea level rise.

4. Are we at the point that the next ice age has been postponed? If so then fantastic, a mile high ice shelf over Western Europe is a lot more bothersome than people having to move to higher ground.

Interesting but I did not need the political stuff

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I loved it. I loved his book, Liquid too. This one is so easy to listen to that you forget youre learning complex ideas the whole time. Feels like sitting down with someone who cant help but share their fascination and its infectious. Every chapter leaves you looking at the everyday world differently, noticing details youd normaly skim over. The books an absolute joy. Amd i really hope he writes another one soon.

Youre never leftured, youre invited in..

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