{"id":245388,"date":"2024-07-19T12:05:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T12:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/its-a-gas-review-a-fun-history-of-gases-shows-science-at-work-in-daily-life\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:14:24","slug":"its-a-gas-review-a-fun-history-of-gases-shows-science-at-work-in-daily-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/its-a-gas-review-a-fun-history-of-gases-shows-science-at-work-in-daily-life\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a Gas review: A fun history of gases shows science at work in daily life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Compressed air now keeps beer\u00a0fresh by allowing bottle tops\u00a0to\u00a0be pushed on firmly<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a Gas<\/a><\/strong><\/em>
Mark Miodownik (Viking (UK, out now); Mariner (US, 17 September))<\/strong><\/p>\n

WHEN Humphry Davy first gave nitrous oxide to people with tuberculosis in the late 1790s, hoping it might provide a cure, he couldn\u2019t have known that he was also playing a small but important part in culinary history. Yet the links between the two are made clear in Mark Miodownik\u2019s new book on gases, appropriately called It\u2019s a Gas<\/i>.<\/p>\n

While it quickly became apparent to Davy that nitrous oxide had\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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