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Fine- in Fine- jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 272 pages. "Cold technology is one of the single most important technologies not only of this century, but probably of centuries to come, and now fo the first time, the author takes us behind the scenes to explore the history and future both of the science amd of the people who have made it happen." FINE-HARDCOVER, FINE-DUST JACKET.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo. 272pp, index, bibliography. Or gray papered boards in jacket. From the icecream of Kubla Khan to the cryomedicine of tomorrow, the people, the history, the future technology of the science of cold. Previously published in Great Britain as Supercold.
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Very good in Good jacket. The format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8, 75 inches. 272 pages. References. Notes. Bibliography. Index. The dust jacket has some wear and soiling. This work was originally published in the United Kingdom as Supercold, an introduction to low temperature technology Explores the history and future of the science of cold, from the first inquiries of the Greeks to cryomedicine and from the fatal field tests of Francis Bacon to the accomplishments of Kelvin, Faraday, Dewar, and Kammerlingh Onnes. David Wilson (1927-2000) was for twenty-five years a Science Correspondent for the BBC TV News and the author of a number of popular books on science. Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere. In common usage, cold is often a subjective perception. A lower bound to temperature is absolute zero, defined as 0.00 K on the Kelvin scale, an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale. This corresponds to 273.15 °C on the Celsius scale, 459.67 °F on the Fahrenheit scale, and 0.00 °R on the Rankine scale. Since temperature relates to the thermal energy held by an object or a sample of matter, which is the kinetic energy of the random motion of the particle constituents of matter, an object will have less thermal energy when it is colder and more when it is hotter. If it were possible to cool a system to absolute zero, all motion of the particles in a sample of matter would cease and they would be at complete rest in the classical sense. The object could be described as having zero thermal energy. Microscopically in the description of quantum mechanics, however, matter still has zero-point energy even at absolute zero, because of the uncertainty principle.
