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Physical Chemistry: Extending the Boundaries

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This chapter is conceived as a brief exposition of the content of the previous nine chapters, a commentary on them and added material, with the intent to enlarge reflection on the general theme, Physical Chemistry in Action. It can be considered as a guide to the book and, in its attempt to be syncretic, perhaps as a guide to the perplexed, confronted with the separate domains of physical chemistry, astrochemistry and astrobiology.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Did Shakespeare have only one Dark Lady in his sonnet sequence [7]? Cosmology has certainly two Dark Ladies (Dark Matter, Dark Energy) whose identity is sought.

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    LOFAR, recently built in Holland, is a new radio interferometric array consisting of many low-cost antennae, organised in stations arranged in an area of 100 km diameter as well as several international stations and operating between 10 and 250 MHz.

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