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Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World by Nick Lane

Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World Nick Lane ebook
ISBN: 0198607830, 9780198607830
Page: 388
Format: pdf
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Nick Lane's book, Oxygen The Molecule that made the World, is a surprising volume. The result is a In both instances, the heat from the laser or photoflash literally caused mini-explosions throughout the paper, as the oxygen atoms in graphene oxide were violently expelled from the structure. Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute made a sheet of paper from the world's thinnest material, graphene, and then zapped the paper with a laser or camera flash to blemish it with countless cracks, pores, and other imperfections. NGC takes you on the extraordinary journey of a single molecule of oxygen. Three hundred million years ago, in Carboniferous times, dragonflies grew as big as seagulls, with wingspans of nearly a metre. Oxygen has had extraordinary effects on life. Under the right conditions, oxygen, light and photosensitiser molecules combine to generate a short-lived poisonous oxygen species called singlet oxygen. This is the basis of photodynamic therapy, a treatment for some cancers. [HD VIDEO & PHOTO] Naked Science: At this very moment, you could be breathing the same oxygen molecule that Genghis Khan did! In Oxygen, Nick Lane takes the reader on an enthralling journey as he unravels the unexpected ways in which oxygen spurred the evolution of life and death. For two sexes, the accelerated aging of cloned animals like Dolly the sheep, and the surprisingly long lives of bats and birds. Scientists in Canada have made nanoparticles that release singlet oxygen when a laser beam is shone on them. The nanoparticles could improve the effectiveness of photodynamic therapy.