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Molecules: A Very Short Introduction

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The processes in a single living cell are akin to that of a city teeming with molecular inhabitants that move, communicate, cooperate, and compete. This book explores the role of the molecule in and around us, and how this molecular dynamism is being captured in the laboratory, to reinvent chemistry as the central creative science of the century.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 172 pages

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