The Cosmic-Chemical Bond: Chemistry from the Big Bang to Planet Formation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781849736091)

Aimed at a wide audience, this book describes how molecules formed in chemical reactions occur in a range of environments in interstellar and circumstellar space, from shortly after the Big Bang up to the present epoch. Stressing that chemistry in these environments needs to be driven, it helps identify these drivers and the various chemical networks that operate giving rise to signature molecules that enable the physics of the region to be better understood. The book emphasises, in a non-mathematical way, the chemistry of the Milky Way Galaxy and its planet-forming regions, describes how other galaxies may have rather different chemistries and shows how chemistry was important even in the Early Universe when most of the elements had yet to be formed.

Author: David A. Williams, T. W. Hartquist
ISBN-10: 184973609X
ISBN-13: 9781849736091
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Language: English
Published: 05/10/2013
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.00w x 0.51d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2014