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Zapped: from infrared to x-rays, the curious history of invisible light
Zapped: from infrared to x-rays, the curious history of invisible light
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Berman, Bob
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Beverly Main - Adult Nonfiction
QC 475 .B47 2017
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Light fantastic
Now you see it, now you don't
The green planet and the red heat
Hot rays
Ultraviolet brings the blues
Danger beyond the violet
Energy rhythms
The exploding sun
No soap
Turning on and tuning in
The speed that destroyed space and time
Microwaves everywhere
The man with the x-ray vision
Röntgen rays for everyone
What's in your basement?
The atomic quartet
Gamma rays: the impossible light
Cell-phone radiation
Cosmic rays
Beams from the universe's birth
Energy from our minds
Ray guns
The next frontier: zero-point and dark energies
Total solar eclipse: when the rays stop
ET's may be broadcasting, but what's their number?
Does light have a bright future?
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Subjects
Subjects
History
Light
Light -- History
Light -- Philosophy
Nonfiction
Optics
Optics -- History
Philosophy
Radiation
Radiation -- History
Science & Technology
SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light
Spectrum analysis
Spectrum analysis -- History
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Berman, Bob
Author
Ganim, Peter
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ISBN
9780316311304
9780316311311
9781478936916
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