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Recommendations... General Chemistry
by Linus Pauling
Revised third edition of classic first-year text by Nobel laureate. Covers atomic and molecular structure, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and thermodynamics correlated with descriptive chemistry. Problems.
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by Paul L. Houston
This text teaches the principles underlying modern chemical kinetics in a clear, direct fashion, using several examples to enhance basic understanding. Solutions to selected problems. 2001 edition.
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 Group Theory and Quantum Mechanics
by Michael Tinkham
Graduate-level text develops group theory relevant to physics and chemistry and illustrates their applications to quantum mechanics, with systematic treatment of quantum theory of atoms, molecules, solids. 1964 edition.
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| |  Chemical Magic
by Leonard A. Ford
Classic guide provides intriguing entertainment while elucidating sound scientific principles, with more than 100 unusual stunts: cold fire, dust explosions, a nylon rope trick, a disappearing beaker, much more.
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by E. J. Holmyard
Classic study by noted authority covers 2,000 years of alchemical history: religious, mystical overtones; apparatus; signs, symbols, and secret terms; advent of scientific method, much more. Illustrated.
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|  | An Atlas of Fullerenes
by P. W. Fowler, D. E. Manolopoulos
Students and researchers will appreciate this guide, which features a comprehensive set of pictures of fullerene structures and tabulates their properties. Seven chapters offer a self-contained introduction. 1995 edition.
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|  | Boron Hydrides
by William N. Lipscomb
This classic monograph by a Nobel Prize–winning chemist covers the general structural principles and reactions of boron hydrides and related compounds. Includes more than 120 diagrams and figures. 1963 edition.
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| | Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Dynamics
by Paul L. Houston
This text teaches the principles underlying modern chemical kinetics in a clear, direct fashion, using several examples to enhance basic understanding. Solutions to selected problems. 2001 edition.
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| | Chemical Magic
by Leonard A. Ford
Classic guide provides intriguing entertainment while elucidating sound scientific principles, with more than 100 unusual stunts: cold fire, dust explosions, a nylon rope trick, a disappearing beaker, much more.
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|  | Chemical Oscillations, Waves, and Turbulence
by Y. Kuramoto
A fundamental and frequently cited book provides asymptotic methods applicable to the dynamics of self-oscillating fields of the reaction-diffusion type. Graduate level. 40 figures. 1984 edition.
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|  | The Chemical Philosophy
by Allen G. Debus
Illustrated record of major interests of Paracelsus and other 16th-century chemical philosophers covers chemistry and nature in the Renaissance, Paracelsian debates, theories of Fludd, and other fascinating aspects of the era.
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|  | Chemical and Catalytic Reaction Engineering
by James J. Carberry
Designed to offer background for managing chemical reactions, this text examines behavior of chemical reactions and reactors; fluid-fluid and fluid-solid reaction systems; heterogeneous catalysis and catalytic kinetics; more. 1976 edition.
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| |  | The Development of Modern Chemistry
by Aaron J. Ihde
From ancient Greek theory to the 20th century, this authoritative history shows how major chemists, their discoveries, and political, economic, and social developments transformed chemistry into modern science. An ideal supplementary text for high-school and college-level courses. 209 illustrations.
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|  | EPR of Exchange Coupled Systems
by Alessandro Bencini, Dante Gatteschi
Based on the spin Hamiltonian approach, this unified treatment makes extensive use of irreducible tensor techniques to analyze systems in which two or more spins are magnetically coupled. 177 figures and 38 tables. 1990 edition.
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|  | Electrolyte Solutions: Second Revised Edition
by R.A. Robinson, R.H. Stokes
Classic text deals primarily with measurement, interpretation of conductance, chemical potential, and diffusion in electrolyte solutions. Detailed theoretical interpretations, plus extensive tables of thermodynamic and transport properties. 1970 edition.
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|  | Electron Correlation in Molecules
by S. Wilson
This text addresses one of theoretical chemistry's central problems. Topics include molecular electronic structure, independent electron models, electron correlation, the linked diagram theorem, and related topics. 1984 edition.
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|  | Elementary Chemical Thermodynamics
by Bruce H. Mahan
This text introduces thermodynamic principles in a straightforward manner. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, it emphasizes chemical applications and physical interpretations and simplifies mathematical development. 1964 edition.
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|  | Elementary Quantum Chemistry, Second Edition
by Frank L. Pilar
Useful introductory course and reference covers origins of quantum theory, Schrödinger wave equation, quantum mechanics of simple systems, electron spin, quantum states of atoms, Hartree-Fock self-consistent field method, more. 1990 edition.
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|  | Elements of Chemical Thermodynamics: Second Edition
by Leonard K. Nash
This survey of purely thermal data in calculating the position of equilibrium in a chemical reaction highlights the physical content of thermodynamics, as distinct from purely mathematical aspects. 1970 edition.
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by Antoine Lavoisier
Monumental classic by the founder of modern chemistry features first explicit statement of law of conservation of matter in chemical change, and more. Facsimile reprint of original (1790) Kerr translation.
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|  | Elements of Statistical Thermodynamics: Second Edition
by Leonard K. Nash
Encompassing essentially all aspects of statistical mechanics that appear in undergraduate texts, this concise, elementary treatment shows how an atomic-molecular perspective yields new insights into macroscopic thermodynamics. 1974 edition.
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| |  | From Alchemy to Chemistry
by John Read
Broad, humanistic treatment focuses on great figures of chemistry and ideas that revolutionized the science. Much on alchemy, also development of modern chemistry, atomic theory, elements, organic chemistry, more. 50 illustrations.
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