Ramirez,  Ainissa  <br/><br/>
Alchemy of us: how humans and matter transformed one another 

 - Cambridge:  The MIT Press,   2020 
 - xv, 308p. ;  hb,  24cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes index 
<br/><br/> Excerpts from the Preface and Chapter 8: Materials Science, wedged as it is between the two better-known fields of Chemistry and Physics, teaches us that everything in our world is due to the interactions of atoms. If you can find out how they interact to make up the physical world, then you can also change the way that atoms act to make them do new things and, as we develop new materials, we discover that 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262043809 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Materials<br/>Technology--Social aspects<br/>Inventions<br/>Inventions -- History -- Popular works<br/>Social aspects - Technology and Engineering
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>620.11  / RAM