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Autore |
Levere Trevor Harvey |
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Titolo |
Transforming matter [[electronic resource] ] : a history of chemistry from alchemy to the buckyball |
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Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Collana |
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Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Alchemy |
Chemistry -- History |
Chemistry - History |
Chemistry |
History, Modern 1601- |
History |
Natural Science Disciplines |
Humanities |
Occupations |
Chemistry - General |
Physical Sciences & Mathematics |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 First Steps; 2 Robert Boyle; 3 A German Story; 4 An Enlightened Discipline; 5 Different Kinds of Air; 6 Theory and Practice; 7 Atoms and Elements; 8 The Rise of Organic Chemistry; 9 Atomic Weights Revisited; 10 The Birth of the Teaching-Research Laboratory; 11 Atoms in Space; 12 Physical Chemistry; 13 The Nature of the Chemical Bond; 14 Where Now, and Where Next? New Frontiers; Suggested Further Reading; Index |
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