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The Natural Selection of the Chemical Elements The Environment and Life's Chemistry

By: RJP Williams and JJR Fraústro de Silva
646 pages, Figs, tabs
Publisher: Clarendon Press
The Natural Selection of the Chemical Elements
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About this book

Study of the intimate relationship between the inanimate environment and living organisms, arguing that the evolution of both has been interactive and interdependent.

Contents

1. The development of man's ideas concerning nature; 2. Order in chemical systems: Elements and their combinations; 3. The balance between order and disorder; 4. Phase equilibria; 5. Equilibria in dilute solutions in water; 6. Limited phases, fields and compartments; 7. Evolution of kinetic control and of organisation; 8. The evolution of inorganic chemicals on Earth; 9. The evolution of organic compounds; 10. Early biological chemistry: The uptake and incorporation of elements in anaerobic organisms; 11. Early cellular organisation in anaerobes; 12. The structure and chemistry of organisms after the advent of dioxygen; 13. Organisation in advanced organisms; 14. Man's selection of the chemical elements; 15. Element cycles and their evolution; 16. The evolving natural selection of the chemical elements and the senses; Index

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By: RJP Williams and JJR Fraústro de Silva
646 pages, Figs, tabs
Publisher: Clarendon Press
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From the cloth edition: Chemistry is a wonderful subject.The Natural Selection of the Chemical Elements is a wonderful book ... The result is a tour de force, a major textbook of general chemistry ... remininscent of Pauling's The Nature of the Chemical Bond. Nature
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