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Transforming matter : a history of chemistry from alchemy to the buckyball / Trevor H. Levere.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levere, Trevor Harvey.
- Series:
- Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of science
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chemistry--History.
- Chemistry.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
- 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 organic chemistry
- Atomic weights revisited
- The birth 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 080186609X
- 0801866103
- OCLC:
- 45094008
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