01188nam a2200277Ia 4500 TVU_10949 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 0192854305 9780192854308 eng 541.22 Ph549 Ball, Philip Molecules a very short introduction Philip Ball Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2003 170 p. ill. 18 cm The processes in a single living cell are akin to that of a city teeming with molecular inhabitants that move, communicate, cooperate, and compete. In this Very Short Introduction, Philip Ball explores the role of the molecule in and around us--how, for example, a single fertilized egg can grow into a multi-celled Mozart, what makes spider's silk insoluble in the morning dew, and how this molecular dynamism is being captured in the laboratory, promising to reinvent chemistry as the central creative science of the century Molecules; Chemistry Philip Ball Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh