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    Summary of Mark Miodownik's Stuff Matters
    Summary of Mark Miodownik's Stuff Matters
    Summary of Mark Miodownik's Stuff Matters
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    Summary of Mark Miodownik's Stuff Matters

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    Book Preview: #1 The author was asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement by a man who said he had invented an electronic machine that sharpened blunt razor blades. The author was suspicious, but he was curious to hear the man’s story.

    #2 The Stone Age was a time when metal was extremely rare and highly valued, since the only sources of it were copper and gold, which occur naturally in the Earth’s crust.

    #3 The first people to discover how to make metals hard and soft were the ancient Romans. They discovered that if you put a piece of metal in a fire, it would get softer and stronger. This ability of metals to transform from a soft to a hard material must have seemed like magic to our ancient ancestors.

    #4 The crystalline nature of metals is hidden from us because metal crystals are opaque. They look like crazy paving, and inside those crystals are squiggly lines - these are dislocations, which are defects in the metal crystals. They are useful because they allow the crystals to change shape.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateFeb 25, 2022
    ISBN9781669353027
    Summary of Mark Miodownik's Stuff Matters
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