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Water and Life
The Unique Properties of H2O
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Water and Life
The Unique Properties of H2O
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Reflecting a rich technical and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H20 focuses on the properties of water and its interaction with life. The book develops a variety of approaches that help to illuminate ways in which to address deeper questions with respect to the nature of the universe and our place withi
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Part I: This Strange Substance Called âWaterâ
- Chapter 1: Is Water an Amniotic Edenor a Corrosive Hell?
- Chapter 2: Water and Life
- Chapter 3: An Introduction to the Properties of Water
- Chapter 4: Water as a Biomolecule
- Chapter 5: Waterâs Hydrogen Bond Strength
- Part II: The Specific Properties of WaterâHow and Why Water Is Eccentric
- Chapter 6: Properties of Liquids Made from Modified Water Models
- Chapter 7: Understanding the Unusual Properties of Water
- Chapter 8: Counterfactual Quantum Chemistry of Water
- Chapter 9: Properties of Nanoconfined Water
- Part III: Water in Biochemistry
- Chapter 10: Water
- Chapter 11: Fine-Tuning and Small Differences between Large Numbers
- Chapter 12: Fine-Tuning Protein Stability
- Chapter 13: Water and Information
- Chapter 14: Counterfactual Biomolecular Physics
- Part IV: Water, the Solar System, and the Origin of Life
- Chapter 15: Sources of Terrestrial and Martian Water
- Chapter 16: Water-The Tough- Love Parent of Life
- Chapter 17: What Is the Diversity of Life in the Cosmos?
- Chapter 18: The Primordial Bubble
- Chapter 19: Liquids, Biopolymers, and Evolvability
- Part V: WaterâThe Human Dimension
- Chapter 20: Some Early Responses to the Special Properties of Water
- Chapter 21: Lawrence Hendersonâs Natural Teleology
- Chapter 22: Water A Navigable Channel from Science to God?
- Index
- Color Insert
- Body
- Back cover