num_pages: 306
description: Approximately 3300 selected terms intended to be of use to those with minor exposure to chemistry or as a source of reviewed information. Includes major classifications, functional terms, basic phenomena and processes, chemical elements, compounds, general terms, biographies of past contributors, prefixes and suffixes, and many cross references. Second edition reflects recent fields developments in various fields, e.g., energy, DNA gene-splicing, and treatment of toxic materials and waste control.More than two thousand concise entries define and explain terms used throughout the chemical professions, in the various subdivisions of chemistry, and in the chemical industries
language: English
title: Glossary of Chemical Terms
titlecomplete: Glossary of Chemical Terms
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold