Titlebook: Essential Physics, Chemistry and Biology; D. F. Horrobin Book 1971 D. F. Horrobin 1971 electricity.energy.heat.photosynthesis.physics.unit

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GasesIt is important to have some idea of the basic properties of gases in order to understand both respiration and the oxygen cylinders and anaesthetic machines which every nurse sees in use every day.

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Units, decimals and graphsMost hospitals in most parts of the world now use the metric system originally devised in France nearly 200 years ago. In this system the prefix ‘milli’ means one thousandth and the prefix ‘micro’ means one millionth.

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succeed in reducing the fear with which many nurses face the sciences with which the book deals. Section 1 BIOLOGY 2 The cell and its requirements The world of living things is conveniently and conven­ tionally divided into two great groups, the animals and the plants. Broadly speaking the important

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Solutionsthe solution is sometimes known as the solvent and the dissolved solid is known as the solute. Because of the immense amount of water in the body it is very important to understand something of the behaviour of solutions when the solvent is water.

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Book 1971 reducing the fear with which many nurses face the sciences with which the book deals. Section 1 BIOLOGY 2 The cell and its requirements The world of living things is conveniently and conven­ tionally divided into two great groups, the animals and the plants. Broadly speaking the important feature w

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Book 1971quire by breaking down complex substances which ultimately they always obtain from plants. Plant-eating animals such as cows and sheep obtain these substances directly. Carnivores obtain them indirectly after they have passed through the bodies of other animals.

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