| Description |
296 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Flowing Crystals -- 2. Ice -- 3. Snowflakes -- 4. Blizzard -- 5. Meltwater -- 6. Liquid Crystal -- 7. Sea Ice. |
| Summary |
While it is responsible for today's abundance of flat screens - on televisions, computers, and mobile devices - most of us have only heard of it in the ubiquitous acronym, LCD, with little thought as to exactly what it is: liquid crystal. In this book, Esther Leslie enlightens us, offering an accessible and fascinating look at - not a substance, not a technology - but a wholly different phase of matter. As she explains, liquid crystal is a curious material phase that organizes a substance's molecules in a crystalline form yet allows them to move fluidly like water. Observed since the nineteenth century, this phase has been a deep curiosity to science and, in more recent times, the key to a new era of media technology. |
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Liquid crystals.
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Liquid crystals -- History.
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Science and the arts.
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Art and science.
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