Beauty appreciation

Many solid substances (camphor, iodine, naphthalene, etc.), are known which are appreciably volatile at ordinary temperatures. Others, such as the metals, are apparently quite fixed, but they probably possess a definite, although very small vapour-pressure, even at ordinary temperatures. Thus, if magnesium is heated to 550° for a few hours in a magnesia boat enclosed in a vacuous tube it sublimes in beautiful crystals on the cool part of the tube. The vaporisation of a solid without previous fusion is called sublimation the vapour-pressure (like the vapour-pressure of a liquid), is definite for each temperature, is independent of i the volume of the vapour space, and increases with rise of temperature. 

The beauty of bromide-mediated oxidations is that they combine mechanistic complexity with practical simplicity and, hence, utility. They involve an intricate array of electron transfer steps in which bromine atoms function as go-betweens in transfering the oxidizing power of peroxidic intermediates, via redox metal ions, to the substrate. Because the finer mechanistic details of these elegant processes have often not been fully appreciated we feel that their full synthetic potential has not yet been realized. Hence, we envision further practical applications in the future. 

Learning chemistiy for its aesthetic appeal for example, being able to appreciate the beauty of natural ciystals ... 

Hopefully with this brief introduction the reader will be able to appreciate fully the chapters which follow and which have been written by experts in the field. The complexity and beauty of the liquid crystalline phase has attracted many able scientists and the applications of liquid crystals in the electronics industry have provided a secure funding base for the subject. This is therefore still a field which is expanding rapidly and many research avenues remain to be explored by newcomers. Perhaps after reading these volumes of Structure and Bonding you will be tempted to join this exciting endeavour. 

The simple INR concept has succeeded beautifully for many problems in atomic and nuclear physics. Unfortunately, the INR picture is seldom valid for reactive resonances, which, on the contrary, tend to be broad and overlapping. The breakdown of the INR idealization for reactive resonances was appreciated long ago in terms of the impact parameter averaging implicit in reactive collisions.38 If we imagine that an isolated reactive resonance corresponds to a vibrational state of an intermediate molecule, then the rotational energy levels built on that state have energies given by... 

The beautifully simple and elegant tool for studying the response of monolayers on a water surface to compression was invented in 1882 by Fraiilein Agnes Pockels when she was 20 years old from observations made at her kitchen sink. As physical chemistry developed, an appreciation for the... 

We constantly value what we perceive as beautiful, ugly, repulsive, frightening, sinister, cute, and the like. Much of this appreciation is indeed acquired, templates being fixated in imprint-like fashion. There are however strong indications that many templates come preformed in our innate outfit. Such is the case with some of those concerning the aesthetic appeal of human facial and other bodily characteristics. Others concern environmental features. Thus human beings exhibit an aesthetic preference for plants (Phyto-philia) which reflect an archetypical imprint on features of the environment. 

The term cognitive is potentially misleading here if it means not affective, or not emotional. In fact, these reactions are eminently emotional appreciation of the beauty of face or figure, or of some chemical moiety that proves to be nutritious or aversion to the sound of a distressed baby s cry or the smell of human waste. 

The editors are grateful to the more than 80 authors who cooperated beautifully in completing this book in a timely fashion. We also deeply appreciate the financial support from the Petroleum Research Fund Amoco Chemical, Arco Chemical, and BP Research Companies the Center for Advanced Materials Processing at Clarkson University Exxon Chemical and Exxon Research and Engineering Companies and the Division of Petroleum Chemistry, Inc., of the American Chemical Society, which made the symposium and this book possible. 

To appreciate this section and, more broadly, to appreciate the importance of this book s topic as a justification for mathematics, one should understand the role of theory in the physical sciences. While in mathematics the intrinsic beauty of a theory is sufficient justification for its study, the value of a theory in the physical sciences is limited to the value of the experimental predictions it makes. For example, the theory of the double-helical structure of... 

Just as you can t enjoy a ball game, computer game, or party game until you know its rules, so it is with nature. Because science helps us learn the rules of nature, it also helps us appreciate nature. You may see beauty in a tree, but you ll see more beauty in that tree when you realize that it was created from substances found not in the ground but primarily in the air—specifically, the carbon dioxide and water put into the air by respiring organisms such as yourself (Figure 1.13). 

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