| Title |
Transforming matter : a history of chemistry from alchemy to the buckyball / Trevor H. Levere. |
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| Publication Info. |
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. |
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| Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction
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540.9 LEVERE |
Recently Returned |
| Description |
x, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of science |
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Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of science.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [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. |
| Subject |
Chemistry -- History.
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| ISBN |
080186609X (acid-free paper) |
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0801866103 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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