Water: A Matrix of LifeWater: A Matrix of Life is an updated Second Edition that addresses the latest issues on this vital substance. This book discusses current scientific knowledge of water, its remarkable properties, its influence on dissolved substances and its usually neglected but controlling role in the life sciences and ecology. With emphasis on developments over the last two decades, attention is drawn to important issues such as water quality, usage, economics and politics. |
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Hydration and Computer Simulation | 99 |
Ionisation Reactions | 112 |
Heat and Cold Inactivation | 125 |
Oligo and Polysacharide Hydration | 138 |
Unstable Water | 152 |
Nucleation of Ice by Particulate Matter | 159 |
Properties of Supersaturated Aqueous Solutions | 167 |
Theory of Structural Relaxation by Cooperative Motions | 173 |
Natural Freezing and Drought Resistance | 179 |
Chapter 14 | 187 |
Supplementation of Water Resources by Climatic | 193 |
Water Purity and Purification | 202 |
Human Attitudes and Politics | 209 |
Summary and Prognosis | 214 |
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Página 41 - Fourier transform of the function p(R) which gives the probability per unit volume of finding an atom at a distance R from a given atom in the liquid in the ground state.
Página 209 - value in use' and 'value in exchange', expressed in his 'diamond-water paradox'. He supposed diamonds to have a market value, but no value in use, and water to have a high value in use, but no value in the market-place. That man cannot live without water has been largely responsible for laws which have placed water above other economic goods and which have little bearing on the conditions for optimum allocation of resources. Economic efficiency requires that: (a) The existing water supplies be allocated...
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Página 209 - ... (3) any project that is undertaken be the least costly of the available alternatives. An examination of various types of national water legislation demonstrates that some existing laws, and also the common practice of selling water on a flat-rate basis, are hardly in harmony with these requirements. Until the institutional setting is altered, the misallocation of water - and particularly ground water - will continue.
Página 188 - Of the average total rainfall, about 70 per cent evaporates; the remainder appears as liquid water on or below the land surface. Some water, not included in the average rainfall figure, evaporates in the air between the clouds and the land surface. The remaining evaporation losses are of two forms: direct evaporation from wet surfaces and transpiration through plants from their leaves and stems. The precipitation adhering to trees and other vegetation (intercepted water) accounts for a large proportion...
Página 188 - ... been put into operation, there are no major technical barriers and the economics compare favourably with those of desalination. Some of the runoff eventually collects in surface streams, but the larger proportion percolates underground where permeable soil is present. Gravity forces water downward through alluvial deposits, porous rock, gravel or sand.
Página 209 - Man cannot survive without water. These observations probably prompted Adam Smith's distinction between 'value in use' and 'value in exchange', expressed in his 'diamond-water paradox'.
Página 33 - Historians are still discussing — and are likely to continue to do so for a long time to come — the reasons which led the Danes, Norwegians and Swedes to carry out this series of exploits.
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| Título | Water: A Matrix of Life Volume 21 de RSC paperbacks Royal Society of Chemistry paperbacks |
| Autor | Felix Franks |
| Colaboradores | Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain), Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain). |
| Edição | ilustrada |
| Editora | Royal Society of Chemistry, 2000 |
| ISBN | 085404583X, 9780854045839 |
| Num. págs. | 225 páginas |
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