Scientific Classification Manual Chemistry

Author: (USA) Dell Graham Professional Group Li Zhifen et al
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
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Terminology: The book contains over 1,400 entries, with many entries accompanied by simple diagrams to help explain their meanings. Topics include: alkaline earth metals, bromides, carbides, elements, fluorescence, Group V elements, helium, ions, litmus, and photochromism.
People: Introduces more than 300 chemists from ancient times to the present, whose discoveries have advanced human understanding and knowledge of chemistry. These scientists include: Archimedes, George Wells Beadle, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Louis Pasteur, and Karl Ziegler.
Chronology: Covers nearly 9,000 years of chemical development history, including major discoveries and significant events in chemistry: European Iron Age; the gradual spread of iron smelting and processing across the European continent (950–500 BC); the introduction of standardized weighing and measurement by Charles Magnan (789); British chemist Henry Cavendish's discovery of the element hydrogen (1766); French chemist Pierre Curie and physicist Marie Curie's discovery of the elements radium and polonium (1896).