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Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city descended from space to crash into Earth, creating a devastating cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the other species on the planet. What was its origin? In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Lisa Randall proposes it was a comet that was dislodged from its orbit as the Solar System passed through a disk of dark matter embedded in the Milky Way. In a sense, it...
3) Matter
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Language
English
Description
Examines the elements that make up the physical world and the properties and behavior of different kinds of matter.
11) Matter
Author
Language
English
Description
What is matter and where can it be found? Everything in the world is made of matter, whether it is a solid, a liquid, or a gas. Important ideas about matter such as volume, mass, and how matter changes state are conveyed through a series of easy-to-do experiments.
Author
Language
English
Description
"All matter--everything around us and within us--has an ultimate birthday: the day the universe was born. This informative, eye-opening, and eminently readable book is the story of our atoms' long strange journey from the Big Bang to the creation of stars, through the assembly of Planet Earth, and the formation of life as we know it. It's also the story of the scientists who made groundbreaking discoveries and unearthed extraordinary insights into...
13) Matter
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"First Science explains introductory physical science concepts about matter through real-world observation and simple scientific diagrams. Intended for students in grades three through six"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible reads like James Gleick's Chaos combined with an Indiana Jones adventure"--
18) Materials
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Language
English
Description
Describes the properties of different types of natural and manufactured matter, including elastic, marble, wood, silk, and gold. Materials answers fundamental questions about the matter and materials that make up the physical world around us. What are rocks made of? Where do plastics come from, and what are they used for? Why can I see through glass? Readers are introduced to the most common natural and manufactured materials-including metals, wood,...
