By Curt Stager
ISBN-10: 1250018846
ISBN-13: 9781250018847
What do atoms need to do along with your existence? In Your Atomic Self, scientist Curt Stager finds how they attach you to a couple of the main striking issues within the universe.
You will stick to your oxygen atoms via hearth and water and from forests on your fingernails. Hydrogen atoms will wriggle into your hair and betray the place you reside and what you've been consuming. The carbon on your breath becomes tree trunks, and the sodium on your tears will hyperlink you to long-dead oceans. The nitrogen on your muscle groups can help to show the sky blue, the phosphorus on your bones may also help to show the coastal waters of North Carolina eco-friendly, the calcium on your enamel will weigh down your meals among atoms that have been mined by means of mushrooms, and the iron on your blood will kill microbes because it as soon as killed a star.
You also will observe that a lot of what dying needs to necessarily do on your physique is already occurring between lots of your atoms at this very second and that, still, you and everybody else you recognize will regularly exist someplace within the cloth of the universe.
You will not be in simple terms made from atoms; you're atoms, and this e-book, in essence, is an atomic box consultant to your self.
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