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"The Facts On File Chemistry Handbook features the following components: a glossary of more than 1,400 entries, many accompanied by labeled diagrams to help clarify the meanings. Topics covered include alkaline earth metals, bromides, carbides, element, fluorescence, Group V elements, helium, ion, litmus, and phototropy; biographies of more than 300 scientists from ancient times to the present whose discoveries have pushed forward the world's understanding...

Contains over two thousand alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on topics in organic chemistry, covering basic chemistry, elements, classes of compounds, and laboratory techniques, and includes more than one hundred line drawings and a bibliography.

"Encyclopedia of Mathematics is a useful reference providing current and accurate information on the subject for high school and college students. Comprehensive coverage includes significant discoveries in mathematics, in addition to definitions of basic terms, thought-provoking essays, and capsule biographies of notable scientists in mathematics - all presenting a wide range of valuable information compiled into a single source. Written in easy-to-understand...

Contains more than two thousand chemistry-related entries, four essays, information on leading discoveries, and biographies of notable chemists throughout history.

Contains over three thousand alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on topics in chemistry, and includes sixty line drawings and a bibliography.

Examines the role of science in the Industrial Revolution, its establishment as a popular discipline, and discoveries in the areas of atoms and the elements, chemistry, evolution, and energy.