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UNINA9910457286503321 |
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Autore |
Phillies George D. J. |
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Titolo |
Phenomenology of polymer solution dynamics / / George D.J. Phillies [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 |
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1-107-22592-2 |
1-280-48499-3 |
1-139-22229-5 |
9786613579973 |
0-511-84318-6 |
1-139-21748-8 |
1-139-22400-X |
1-139-21440-3 |
1-139-22057-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvi, 509 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. Introduction -- 2. Sedimentation -- 3. Electrophoresis -- 4. Quasielastic light scattering and diffusion -- 5. Solvent and small-molecule motion -- 6. Segmental diffusion -- 7. Dielectric relaxation and chain dimensions -- 8. Self- and tracer diffusion -- 9. Probe diffusion -- 10. Dynamics of colloids -- 11. The dynamic structure factor -- 12. Viscosity -- 13. Viscoelasticity -- 14. Nonlinear viscoelastic phenomena -- 15. Qualitative summary -- 16. Phenomenology -- 17. Afterword: hydrodynamic scaling model for polymer dynamics. |
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Presenting a completely new approach to examining how polymers move in non-dilute solution, this book focuses on experimental facts, not theoretical speculations, and concentrates on polymer solutions, not dilute solutions or polymer melts. From centrifugation and solvent dynamics to viscosity and diffusion, experimental measurements and |
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their quantitative representations are the core of the discussion. The book reveals several experiments never before recognized as revealing polymer solution properties. A novel approach to relaxation phenomena accurately describes viscoelasticity and dielectric relaxation and how they depend on polymer size and concentration. Ideal for graduate students and researchers interested in the properties of polymer solutions, the book covers real measurements on practical systems, including the very latest results. Every significant experimental method is presented in considerable detail, giving unprecedented coverage of polymers in solution. |
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UNINA9910954348403321 |
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Autore |
Naylor R. T. <1945-> |
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Crass struggle : greed, glitz, and gluttony in a wanna-have world / / R.T. Naylor |
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Montreal ; ; Ithaca [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011 |
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0-7735-8660-1 |
0-7735-8652-0 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (494 p.) |
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Wealth - Moral and ethical aspects |
Wealth - Social aspects |
Rich people - Conduct of life |
Consumption (Economics) - Moral and ethical aspects |
Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preamble: Bacchanalian adventures with the ultra-rich -- The gold-diggers: precious metal, poisoned chalice -- Vulgari: flawed beauty in the gemstones business -- Icecapades: the diamond's darker facets -- Sketchy business: on art connoisseurs and con artists -- The chiselers: from tomb-raider to curator -- The numismaniacs: when big modern money chases little old coins -- The winophiliacs: uncorking the |
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secrets of the wine trade -- Puff artists: behind the smokescreen of high-end cigars -- Afishionados: on fishy business in the fishing business -- Jailbirds: if parrots could really talk ... -- The hunter-gatherer society: from law of the jungle to maw of the market -- Goring the tusk trade: mammoth task, toothless law? -- Coda: from class struggle to crass struggle. |
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A critique of the lifestyles of today's ultra rich bolstered by old-fashioned muckraking, Crass Struggle provides a sharp, original, and often humorous commentary on "the bad side of the good life, the underbelly of the potbelly." Taking the reader inside today's luxury trades, R.T. Naylor visits gold mines spewing arsenic and diamond fields spreading human misery, knocks on the doors of purveyors of luxury seafood as the oceans empty, samples wares of merchants offering top-vintage wines (or at least top-vintage labels), calls on companies running trophy-hunting expeditions and dealers in exotic pets high on endangered lists, and much more. What stands out is that so many high-priced items glitter on the outside, but have more than a spot of rot at the core. Through a series of outrageous but all too true stories, Crass Struggle reveals the appalling consequences of consumerism run amok and its links to repetitive financial swindles and the alarming degradation of the biophysical environment. |
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