| Edition |
Ninth edition. |
| Description |
20 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acoustics -- Aerospace engineering -- Agriculture -- Analytical chemistry -- Anatomy and physiology vertebrate) -- Anthropology -- Archeology -- Astronomy -- Atomic and molecular physics -- Biochemistry and molecular biology -- Biophysics -- Cell biology -- Chemical engineering -- Civil engineering -- Classical mechanics and heat -- Computing -- Conservation -- Control and information systems -- Design engineering -- Developmental biology -- Ecology -- Electrical engineering -- Electrical power engineering -- Electricity and electromagnetism -- Electromagnetic radiation optics -- Electronic circuits -- Evolution -- Experimental psychology -- Fluid mechanics -- Food engineering: Animal feeds, barley, buckwheat, butter, casein, cheese, cocoa powder and chocolate, coffee, cold storage, corn, distilled spirits, fat and oil, food, food engineering, food manufacturing, food microbiology, food preservation, food science, gelatin, ice cream, malt beverage, margarine, milk, monosodium glutamate, oats, peanut, pecan, pepsin, rennin, rice, rye, salt, soybean, spice and flavoring, starch, sugar, tea, vanilla, vinegar, wheat, wine -- Forensic science -- Forestry -- General physiology -- Genetics -- Geochemistry -- Geology (physical, historical, and sedimentary) -- |
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Geology (surfical and petrology) -- Geology and geodesy -- Geophysics -- Graphic arts and photographic materials: book manufacture, ink, photocopying processes, photographic materials, photography, printing, type (printing) -- Immunology -- Immunology and virology -- Industrial and production engineering -- Inorganic chemistry -- Invertebrate paleontology -- Invertebrate zoology -- Low-temperature physics -- Materials -- Materials science and engineering -- Mathematics -- Mechanical and power engineering -- Medical microbiology -- Medical science -- Metallurgical engineering -- Meteorology and climatology -- Microbiology -- Microscopy -- Mineralogy -- Mining engineering -- Mycology -- Naval architecture and marine engineering -- Navigation -- Neuroscience -- Nuclear and elementary particle physics -- Nuclear engineering -- Oceanography -- Organic chemistry -- Paleobotany -- Pathology -- Petroleum chemistry: aircraft fuel, alkylation, aromatization, carbon black, coking, depolymerization, dewaxing of petroleum, diesel fuel, distillate fuel, flash point, fractionating column, fuel oil, gasoline, hydorcracking, isomerizaton, jet fuel, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), lubricant, naphta, oil analysis, petrochemical, petrolatum, petroleum processing and refining, petroleum products, pour point, petroleum wax -- |
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Petroleum engineering: asphalt and asphaltite, coal degasification, gas field and gas well, natural gas, offshore oil and gas, oil and gas field exploitation, oil and gas storage, oil and gas well completion, oil and gas well drilling, petroleum, petroleum engineering, petroleum enhanced recover, petroleum geology, petroleum reserves, petroleum reservoir engineering, photoclinometer, seismic exploration for oil and gas, turbodrill, well logging, -- Petrology -- Phylogeny and taxonomy -- Physical chemistry -- Physical electronics -- Physical geography -- Physiological psychology -- Physiology -- Plant pathology -- Plant physiology -- Plant sciences -- Plant taxonomy -- Propulsion -- Psychiatry -- Psychology -- Radio communications -- Soils -- Solid-state physics -- Telecommunications and remote sensing -- Theoretical physics -- Thermodynamics -- Thermodynamics and heat -- Transportation engineering -- Vertebrate paleontology -- Vertebrate zoology -- Veterinary medicine -- Virology. |
| Summary |
Also includes information on Scientific notation, including measurement systems, conversion factors, temperature, chemical elements and nomenclature, symbols in scientific writing, and the Greek alphabet. Includes study guides on Agriculture, Forestry and Soils, Anthropology and Archeology, Astronomy, Biological and Biomedical Science, Chemistry, Computing and Information Technology, Earth Science, Electronics, Engineering and Technology, Environmental Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Paleontology, Physics, Psychiatry and Psychology. |
| Subject |
Science -- Encyclopedias.
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Technology -- Encyclopedias.
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Science -- Encyclopedias -- English.
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Technology -- Encyclopedias -- English.
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| Added Title |
Encyclopedia of science & technology |
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McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology |
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Encyclopedia of science and technology |
| ISBN |
0079136656 (set : acid-free paper) |
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