The Facts on File Chemistry Handbook
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The Facts on File Chemistry Handbook (Facts on File)
The Facts on File Chemistry Handbook (Facts on File)
By The Diagram Group
Publisher: Facts on File
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2006-03-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0816058784
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780816058785
Binding: Hardcover
Featuring easy-to-read and -understand chronologies, biographies, glossary entries, and charts, measurements, and formulas, students, teachers, and general readers will consider these books primary one-stop resources for quick answers to frequently asked science questions. Among the topics covered are: alkaline Earth metals, bromides, dehydration, helium, the law of multiple proportions, molecules, potassium nitrate. Biographies include: Archimedes, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, Marie Curie, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Louis Pasteur. Tables, charts, and diagrams include: periodic table, elements by group, metals and alloys, chemical reaction types, hydrocarbons, polymers.
Summary: Excellent reference
Rating: 5
This book is an excellent resource for anyone who needs a quick refresher on anything related to basic chemistry. Need to know the characteristics of the halogens? Can’t remember how the process of distillation actually works? What is cream of tartar anyway? This book has all the answers written in clear and precise language in it’s glossary, which is over 100 pages long. The glossary also contains diagrams and illustrations for many of it entries, including things like lab set-ups, types of bonds, and states of matter. The book also contains a large section of biographical and historical information that can provide a quick reference if you need to look up something chemistry-related or if you’re just looking for something interesting to flip through.
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