Encyclopedia Of Chemistry (Science Encyclopedia) - Hardcover

Rittner, Don; Bailey, R. A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816048940 ISBN 13: 9780816048946

Publisher: Facts on File, 2005

Synopsis

With a structure that reflects the way chemistry is currently studied, the Encyclopedia of Chemistry has hundreds of chemistry-related entries, thought-provoking essays, leading discoveries, and biographies of notable chemists throughout history. It is written for high school and early college students.

About this title

About the Author:

Ronald A. Bailey has been assistant/associate chair in the department of chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since 1991.

From Booklist:

Intended for use by high-school and undergraduate students, this 2,000-entry encyclopedia contains a good selection of chemical terms. Some of the entries are biographical, but it is not clear how the individual names were selected. Many seem to be in fields other than chemistry, and some prominent names, such as Friedrich Beilstein and Leopold Gmelin, are not included. Entries are generally brief, most ranging from a single sentence to half of a page. Cross-references aid navigation. There are more than 150 black-and-white photographs, illustrations, and charts.

The 20-page bibliography is current to 2003. Other appended material includes a small sampling of chemistry-related Web sites, a brief listing of chemistry software sources, a list of Nobel Prize winners in chemistry, the periodic table of elements, and charts showing chemical reaction types and metals and alloys. An interesting addition is "a set of essays by today's chemists on the role chemistry plays in our daily lives, ranging from how chemistry helps solve crimes to how it provides dyes for our latest fashions." These four essays are randomly inserted throughout the book.

This would be a good encyclopedia for high-school and public libraries to round out a collection that also contains other Facts On File publications such as Encyclopedia of Biology (2004) and Encyclopedia of Physics (2004). For research-oriented users, the Van Nostrand's Encyclopedia of Chemistry, 5th edition (Wiley, 2005), would be the recommended choice. H. Robert Malinowski
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About this edition

• Publisher: Facts on File
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0816048940
• ISBN 13: 9780816048946
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352