It's a gas : (Record no. 141147)
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| fixed length control field | 01623nam a22002297a 4500 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20260611153307.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 260611s2024 |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780241376386 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | PK-LaUMT |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 530 |
| Item number | MIO-G |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Miodownik, Mark |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | It's a gas : |
| Remainder of title | the magnificent and elusive elements that expand our world / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Mark Miodownik |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Viking, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2024 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xxii, 279 p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "Why are most gases invisible, odourless and tasteless? Why do some poison us and others make us laugh? And why do some power our engines while others make drinks fizzy? In It's a Gas, Mark Miodownik masterfully reveals an invisible world through his unique brand of scientific storytelling. Taking us back to that exhilarating--and often dangerous--moment when scientists tried to work out exactly what they had discovered, Miodownik shows that gases are the formative substances of our modern world, each with its own weird and wonderful personality. We see how seventeenth-century laughing gas parties led to the first use of anaesthetics in surgery, how the invention of the air valve in musical instruments gave us bicycles, cars and trainers, and how gases made us masters of the sea (by huge steamships) and skies (via extremely flammable balloons). This delight of a book reveals the immense importance of gases to modern civilisation"-- |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | Eng |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Gases-properties-history |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Gases-history |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Gases-analysis |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| UMT Main Campus | UMT Main Campus | 2026-06-11 | 530 MIO-G | 153072 | 2026-06-11 | 2026-06-11 | Books |