Transforming matter : a history of chemistry from alchemy to the buckyball / Trevor H. Levere.
- Levere, Trevor Harvey.
- Date:
- 2001
- Books
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Publication/Creation
Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Physical description
x, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-208) and index.
Contents
First steps: from alchemy to chemistry? -- Robert Boyle: chemistry and experiment -- A German story: what burns, and how -- An enlightened discipline: chemistry as science and craft -- Different kinds of air -- Theory and practice: the tools of revolution -- Atoms and elements -- The rise of the teaching-research laboratory -- Atoms in space -- Physical chemistry: a discipline comes of age -- The nature of the chemical bond -- Where now, and where next? new frontiers -- Suggested further reading.
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Location Status History of MedicineAHB /LEVOpen shelves
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- 080186609X
- 0801866103