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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Preface
List of illustrations
Chapter 1: Gold, sand, and string
Old money
Bronze bells
Big steel
Quartz, calcite, and clay
String molecules
Macrostructure
Metals, ceramics, and polymers?
Chapter 2: Close inspection
Down the microscope
Crystals, crystals everywhere
Down still further
Lattice work
Banding together
Imperfection
How to make a crystal
Photograph
Low-dimensional crystals
Non-crystals
Chapter 3: Tough but slippery
Light and heavy
Hot and cold
Stiff and strong
Hard and slippery
Soft
Liquid and gas
Burn and bang
Chapter 4: Electric blue
Good conductor, bad conductor
Superconductor
Magnet
Transparent, opaque, or shiny
… And red
Virtual material
Chapter 5: Making stuff and making things
Glass
Silicon
Superalloy
String and textile
Plastic
Fired-clay ceramic
Material-as-device
Device-as-material
From ingredients
Material-as-object
The use scientific
Putting it all together
Pure imagination
Chapter 6: Such quantities of sand
Running short
Global flow
Cutting costs
Fit for purpose
Round and round
Dust to dust
Collateral damage
No conclusion
Appendix 1
Multiples
Length
Temperature
Force, pressure, and stress
Energy and power
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
References
Further Reading
Index
Very Short Introductions
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