La crisis ambiental global. Causas, consecuencias y soluciones prácticas

Este libro brinda un compilado de problemas que responden a los temas del programa de Química que se dicta en UBA XXI. Su resolución requiere la aplicación de los conceptos fundamentales adquiridos en el estudio teórico de la materia, tales como estructura atómica y tabla periódica, uniones químicas y propiedades de las sustancias, soluciones, magnitudes atómico-moleculares y estado gaseoso, reacciones químicas, equilibrio químico, equilibrio ácido-base, soluciones reguladoras (buffer) y química orgánica. Las autoras crearon un abanico de situaciones problemáticas y de...

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of current researches on science in the Muslim-Arab world. The papers deal with the religious and institutional context, mathematics, optics, astronomy, mechanics, natural philosophy, and pharamacology.The present volume also includes a general author index of the 21 volumes that make up the proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science.

In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place―in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor. Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy, using it to...

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.