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Iron, nature's universal element : why people need iron & animals make magnets / Eugenie Vorburger Mielczarek and Sharon Bertsch McGrayne.
- Title
- Iron, nature's universal element : why people need iron & animals make magnets / Eugenie Vorburger Mielczarek and Sharon Bertsch McGrayne.
- Author
- Mielczarek, Eugenie V.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2000.
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- Additional Authors
- McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch.
- Description
- xvi, 204 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Mielczarek (physics, George Mason U.) and science writer McGrayne explore the critical importance of the metal element in life from bacteria to humans. They report on recent discoveries about iron and magnetism in bacteria, in myriad animal and plant species, and in humans, such as that many migrating animals have minute deposits of magnetite inside them that are sensory navigators. They also, of course, discuss the role of iron in mammalian blood and the iron- related diseases of humans.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-196) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- What was iron doing at life's birth? : life without oxygen -- Catastrophe : the arrival of oxygen -- Grabbing and storing : controlling iron -- The smallest living magnets : avoiding oxygen -- Hemoglobin and myoglobin : harnessing oxygen -- Migrating animals : magnetic travel -- Iron and the planet's ecosystem : seas and soils -- Feeding the world's poor : iron deficiency.
- ISBN
- 0813528313 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99056540^
- OCLC
- 42761950
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library