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Nanoscale: Visualizing an Invisible World

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GREAT coffee table book with beautiful illustrations. This is a readable book to help ordinary people understand a little about ordinary science if little things. Reading the work of astronomers with measurements of light years boggles the mind. Now you can have YOUR mind boggled by things measured in billionths of a meter. I guess that the publisher got so carried away with the thrill of reading about the nanometer world that they published it too close to nanosized. The beautiful illustrations would be great in a bigger format, maybe 8 by 12 coffee table size, but maybe the publisher has a smaller coffee table than I do.

Having looked at this book, I was a little disappointed as whilst the photos of stuff from air to diamond were enlightening, I found the accoumpanying text rather less informative. I was expecting some data -packed work on the impact of nanoscale particles on the environment and living things. So this is not so much a good read, more a good look. It is essentially a catalogue of computer generated molecular structures. If this work shows anything, its that most stuff is just a bunch of atoms so in a sense most stuff is pretty much the same stuff. Its a good job that the nanoworld is invisible otherwise we'd all fall asleep.