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Fascinating laws of nature about how and why liquids behave the way they do.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 25 February 2020

Liquids, Gases, Solids, this is our world. But why do they behave the way do? Why do clothes dry, tar roads crack, saliva drools, clouds burst? The author explains the scientific reasons in a simple language, observing and commenting on everyday liquids around us as he travels on a plane. The reader is left with a sense of wonder, awe and satisfaction as the secrets of nature are revealed in a simple entertaing laungage.

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Good book about materials

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 3 November 2019

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Best book for the Geeks and every easy read

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Sam Ingham

Amazing book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 9 February 2023

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10/10 book, wanted it for a while and came very quickly

Baglady

Fascinating

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 26 August 2021

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A glimpse into the science of liquids and what a treat! I'm not generally interested in science but this book is so clever; very readable and accessible yet informative and educational. Using a journey as the peg on which to hang the stories about different substances is inspired. It gives each chapter a direct relevance to our own daily lives. Very enjoyable but perhaps a few more interesting illustrations would have made it really shine.

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An engineers view

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 8 July 2022

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Excellent, lots of stuff I didn't know, very informative and accessible even to the layman, everyone should read but won't!

SEA WARRIOR

PERFECT FOR A LONG-HAUL FLIGHT

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 30 July 2019

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I really enjoyed this book. The science is more pop than deep but that gives the author scope to entertain as well as to inform. The entertainment comes largely from the author's using a long-haul flight as the backbone to his story. I also found the epilogue fascinating; although the author seems to have latched onto a particular style of science writing I hope he will write again, and more deeply, on advances in liquid technologies. Who might particularly enjoy 'Liquid'? Creative writers, possibly. Students getting into chemistry or physics, probably. And, certainly, those with a long-haul flight in the offing; six hours in a metal tube will give you enough time for a wine or two, a meal, a coffee (not tea!), a bit of a movie, a biro hunt, filling in your landing card, and finishing this gem of a book.

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The weird and wonderful world of liquids

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 17 April 2020

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In Liquid Rules Mark Miodownik makes us take a second look at some common liquids that we routinely take for granted. He uses a flight he took from London to San Fransisco as the structure of the book. This allows him to explore a diverse range of liquids including the kerosene that allows the plane to fly, water in the oceans the flight crosses, the ink in a ballpoint pen and the drinks served on the plane among many others. The very state of being a liquid, somewhere between a solid and a gas, means liquids sometimes behave in quite strange ways, but some have even more incredible properties.
Full of fascinating facts, it's an easy read that's not too heavy on the science but is full of wonder about the world.

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Gianluca Cicala

Liquid: the delightful and dangerous substances

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on 24 December 2018

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The book is the second by Prof. Miodownik I have read. This book is less focused than the first one as the author tends to ramble more on the narrative side rather than going deeply into the scientific aspects. However, I find the book very interesting too and aimed for non professionals to make them turn interested into materials and, more specifically, to develop the curiosity towards history of science. The book contains many references to material developments that are important to let the readers understanding many hidden aspects of nowadays life. I would recommend reading this book for students too as they can better understand and appreciate topics they are studying during their career.

Rowan

Excellent and informative

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 2 May 2021

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This book delivers. Its subject of liquid opens a whole new world of wonder coming from the mundane. The sea, tea, flying, clouds, tar, the body, the Earth, life and more will never be the same again. It also delivers possibilities for future advance to save the planet. Written eruditely but easily accessible and with gallons of humour, Liquid is a must read for those with an appetite for discovery.

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Can't recommend

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 25 June 2021

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I like Mark's work, so I persisted to the end, but the narrative, focused on his supposed fears and foibles on a long flight were an irritating distraction from what should have been an interesting subject. He has gone down a bit in my estimation as a result, I'm afraid.

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