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Why isn't wood weaker that it is? Why isn't steel stronger? Why does glass sometimes shatter and sometimes bend like spring? Why do ships break in half? What is a liquid and is treacle one? All these are questions about the nature of materials All of them are vital to engineers but also fascinating as scientific problems During the 250 years up to the 1920s and 1930s they had been answered largely by seeing how materials behaved in practice But materials continued to do things that they "ought" not to have done Only in the last 40 years have these questions begun to be answered by a new approach Material scientists have started to look more deeply into the make-up of materials They have found many surprises; above all perhaps that how a material behaves depends on how perfectly - or
imperfectly - its atoms are arranged Using both SI and imperial units Professor Gordon's account of material science is a demonstration of the sometimes curious and entertaining ways in which scientists isolate and solve problems
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Why isn't wood weaker that it is? Why isn't steel stronger? Why does glass sometimes shatter & sometimes bend like spring? Why do ships break in half? What is a liquid & is treacle one? All these are questions about the nature of materials All of them are vital to engineers but also fascinating as scientific problems During the 250 years up to the 1920s & 1930s they had been answered largely by seeing how materials behaved in practice But materials continued to do things that they "ought" not to have done Only in the last 40 years have these questions begun to be answered by a new approach Material scientists have started to look more deeply into the make-up of materials They have found many surprises; above all perhaps that how a material behaves depends on how perfectly
- or imperfectly
- its atoms are arranged Using both SI & imperial units Professor Gordon's account of material science is a demonstration of the sometimes curious & entertaining ways in which scientists isolate & solve problems

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Steel - An alloy made predominately of Iron combined with <2% carbon
Liquid - A state of matter - fluid form
Glass - A solid, typically transparent. Brittle and used in windows. The first patent granted in the UK was for Glass.
strong - A descriptive word for an item that has physical strength
Wood - A hard material found in trees. Used for tool making, fuel and construction.

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