Contents :
Introduction ... 1
Chapter 1: The Chemical elements in nineteeth-century science ... 4
Chapter 2: Atomic dissociation and transmutation ... 20
Chapter 3: The age abundances of teh elements ... 29
Chapter 4: Stellar nucleosythesis ... 48
Chapter 5: The interstellar medium ... 64
Chapter 6: The solar sistem ... 76
Chapter 7: Meteorite and Coment Constitutions ... 85
Chapter 8: The Earth and its formation ... 99
Chapter 9: The evolution of the Earth ... 116
Chapter 10: The energetics of living systems ... 129
Chapter 11: Organic replication and genealogy ... 191
Chapter 12: Prebiotic chemistry ... 233
Chapter 13: Biomolecular handedness ... 260
Bibliohraphy ... 285
Author index ... 303
Subject index ... 310
S. F. Mason
Recent accounts of the chemical history of the universe have tended to emphasize either the inorganic or the organic aspects of chemical evolution , looking, for example, at the nucleosynthesis of the chemical elements on the one hand, or the origin and development of living organisms on the other. This book takes chemistry as the central science of all materials - inorganic & organic - at the molecular level, and brings together both aspects in a clear account of the development of ideas of chemical evolution.
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