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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World, by Mark Miodownik
Originally posted on Blogging for a Good Book:
Have you ever wondered why, despite putting one in your mouth every day, you don’t taste your spoon? I had never considered cutlery’s marvelous properties that mean it is simultaneously malleable in production, slow to corrode and unreactive in our acidic mouths. Â In fact, I had never…