Chemistry  

Covers 122,000 scientists in physical, biological or engineering disciplines in the US and Canada.

Core dictionary for the chemical sciences.

This indispensable reference book provides precise technical data and descriptive information for chemical substances and phenomena.

Online resource.

Lists the properties of approximately 4,000 organic and 1,400 inorganic compounds.

Key presentations include forty element definition articles, each providing basic periodic table information and general information on the element in question. Ninety-five biographical articles deal with prominent chemists, while other articles provide additional historical context, particularly with respect to eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century developments.

Definitions for more than 6,000 terms and encompassing the essential language of organic and inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, biochemistry, and chemical engineering. Useful appendices are also included.

Some 3,000 noted scientists and engineers from around the world have contributed to the present, substantially revised and updated edition, which comprises 7,500 signed articles on topics in 81 major subject areas. Includes more than 13,000 drawings, maps, charts, diagrams, and photographs.

Contains over 10,000 monographs on single substances or groups of related compounds. It also includes an appendix with monographs on organic name reactions.