Facts on File Chemistry Handbook Book

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.

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Includes a glossary of some 1,400 entries, often accompanied by labeled diagrams; brief (perhaps two- to four-sentence) biographies of some 300 significant people in the field of chemistry; a chronology of events in the history of discoveries in chemistry; and a set of charts and tables providing a quick reference for a wide array of facts. Appears to be geared toward advanced high school level students. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)