General Chemistry category: 1479 books
Metal Sustainability
Global Challenges, Consequences, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
The sustainable use of natural resources is an important global challenge, and improved metal sustainability is a crucial goal for the 21st century in order to conserve the supply of critical metals and mitigate the environmental and health issues resulting from unrecovered metals.
Metal Sustainability:...
Green Extraction of Natural Products
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Extraction processes are essential steps in numerous industrial applications from perfume over pharmaceutical to fine chemical industry. Nowadays, there are three key aspects in industrial extraction processes: economy and quality, as well as environmental considerations. This book presents a complete...
Basher Science: The Periodic Table
UK Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Do you confuse boron with barium or chlorine with fluorine? Fear not! Basher Science has come to the rescue by mixing science and art to create a unique periodic table. From unassuming oxygen to devious manganese, the incredible elements show you the periodic table as you've never seen it before.
Basher...
Culinary Reactions
The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Exploring the scientific principles behind everyday recipes, this informative blend of lab book and cookbook reveals that cooks are actually chemists. Following or modifying recipes is shown to be an experiment with acids and bases, emulsions and suspensions, gels and foams. This easy-to-follow primer...
by Marc Tischler, Lee W. Janson
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Get the BIG PICTURE of Medical Biochemistry – and target what you really need to know to ace the course exams and the USMLE Step 1
300 FULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS
Medical Biochemistry: The Big Picture is a unique biochemistry review that focuses on the medically applicable concepts and...
by Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2003
Linus Pauling one of the most celebrated scientists of the twentieth century once remarked that satisfying curiosity is one of the greatest sources of pleasure in life. Dr. Joe and What You Didn’t Know to act as both the source and satiation of such curiosity providing pleasure through a series...
Molecules
The Elements and the Architecture of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In this paperback edition of the beloved second book in Theodore Gray's bestselling (1.5 million copies) Elements trilogy, Gray demonstrates how the elements of the periodic table combine into the molecules that form the things that make up our world.
Molecules is the second book in the million-copy...
Adhesion Science and Engineering
Surfaces, Chemistry and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2002
The Mechanics of Adhesion shows that adhesion science and technology is inherently an interdisciplinary field, requiring fundamental understanding of mechanics, surfaces, and materials.
This volume comprises 19 chapters. Starting with a background and introduction to stress transfer principles; fracture...
Why Things Break
Understanding the World By the Way It Comes Apart
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Did you know—
• It took more than an iceberg to sink the Titanic.
• The Challenger disaster was predicted.
• Unbreakable glass dinnerware had its origin in railroad lanterns.
• A football team cannot lose momentum.
• Mercury thermometers are prohibited on airplanes for a crucial...
by Michael Tinkham
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
This graduate-level text develops the aspects of group theory most relevant to physics and chemistry (such as the theory of representations) and illustrates their applications to quantum mechanics. The first five chapters focus chiefly on the introduction of methods, illustrated by physical examples,...
Progress in Liquid Crystal Science and Technology
In Honor of Shunsuke Kobayashi's 80th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The presence of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) marks the advances in mobile phones and television development over the last few decades. Japanese companies were the first to commercialize passive-matrix TNLCDs and, later on, high-resolution activematrix LCDs.
Prof. Shunsuke Kobayashi has made...
Reactions
An Illustrated Exploration of Elements, Molecules, and Change in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The third book in Theodore Gray's bestselling Elements Trilogy, Reactions continues the journey through the world of chemistry that began with his two previous bestselling books The Elements and Molecules.
With The Elements, Gray gave us a never-before-seen, mesmerizing photographic view of...
Echoes of Life
What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
In 1936 a German chemist identified certain organic molecules that he had extracted from ancient rocks and oils as the fossil remains of chlorophyll--presumably from plants that had lived and died millions of years in the past. It was another twenty-five years before this insight was developed and...
by Kalliat T. Valsaraj, Elizabeth M. Melvin
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Environmental engineering, is by its very nature, interdisciplinary and it is a challenge to develop courses that will provide students with a thorough broad-based curriculum that includes every aspect of the environmental engineering profession. Environmental engineers perform a variety of functions,...