Quantifying Matter, Revised Edition explains how scientists learned to measure matter and quantify some of its most fascinating and useful properties. It presents many of the most important intellectual achievements and technical developments that led to the scientific interpretation of substance, starting with the cosmic origin of the elements.

Complete with full-color photographs, this newly updated reference describes the fundamental characteristics and properties of matter. Quantifying Matter, Revised Edition is designed to help any student or teacher with an interest...

Gaseous Matter, Revised Edition takes readers through many important discoveries that led to the scientific interpretation of gaseous matter. This updated resource describes the fundamental characteristics and properties of several important gases, including air, hydrogen, helium, oxygen, and nitrogen.

The nature and scope of the science of fluids is discussed in great detail, highlighting the most important scientific principles upon which the field is based. Gaseous Matter, Revised Edition identifies the wide range of applications that gaseous matter plays in...

Energy of Matter, Revised Edition presents the most important intellectual achievements and technical developments that led people to use matter's energy content more efficiently. Supported by full-color illustrations, this updated reference describes the transformation of matter into energy and vice versa. This reference emphasizes the historical context in which major energy development milestones occurred.

Energy of Matter, Revised Edition has been designed to help any student or teacher with an interest in the energy mysteries of matter, the relationship...

Solid Matter, Revised Edition uncovers many of the discoveries that led to the scientific interpretation of matter in the solid state. Supported by a generous quantity of full-color illustrations, Solid Matter, Revised Edition introduces the fundamental characteristics and properties of solid matter. This reference describes the cosmic connection of the elements, leading readers through several key events in human prehistory that resulted in advanced uses of matter in the solid state. 

Solid Matter, Revised Edition is designed to help any student or teacher...

Some of life's most essential activities such as power generation, air transportation, space exploration, sewage systems, and modern medicine depend upon humankind's ability to understand and predict how liquids and gases behave. Liquid Matter, Revised Edition gives an in-depth look into the fundamental characteristics of various liquids required for life on Earth and beyond.

With liquids being one of the three most familiar states of matter encountered on Earth, this reference describes the role of liquids in Earth's most essential processes. This newly updated edition...

Designed for middle and high school students, A to Z of Scientists in Space and Astronomy, Updated Edition is an ideal reference for notable male and female scientists in the field of space and astronomy, from antiquity to the present.

Containing nearly 150 entries and approximately 50 black-and-white photographs, this exciting title emphasizes these scientists' contributions to the field as well as their effects on those who have followed.

People covered include:

• Al-Battani (858–929 CE)
• Aryabhata (476–550 CE)
• Tycho Brahe...

Extreme States of Matter, Revised Edition takes the reader on a journey across the most exciting scientific frontiers of the 21st century. Supported by full-color illustrations, this reference describes the unusual characteristics and properties of matter at extreme states. Such extreme states include matter at exceptionally high temperatures, exceptionally low temperatures, incredibly high pressures, intense magnetic fields, and intense gravitational fields.

Readers will explore how the properties and characteristics of extreme-state matter might influence the course of human...