The carbon age : how life's core element has become civilization's greatest threat / Eric Roston.
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TextPublication details: New York : Walker & Co. : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 309 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 9780802715579 (alk. paper)
- 0802715575 (alk. paper)
- 577.144 ROS 22nd
- QH344 .R67 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-293) and index.
Prologue: The strange case of carbon -- Pt. 1 : The natural. Out of the frying pan : carbon after the Big Bang ; Dancers and the dance : the origins of life ; The flood : molecular fossils and the great greenhouse collapse ; Inherent brutality : predators, defenses, and the ocean carbon cycle ; The witness : CO2 and a tree of life ; Body heat : running on carbohydrates and hydrocarbons -- Pt. 2 : The unnatural. Greased lightning : carbon and the car ; The physical restraint on fantasy : the art in carbon science ; Faster than a speeding bullet : antiballistic carbon ; The bell jar : humans and the hundredfold acceleration of the carbon cycle ; Instructions not included : the potential of biological fuels ; The adventures ahead : life with carbon, civilization without?
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