Microwave-Enhanced Chemistry
Subtitle: Fundamentals, Sample Preparation, and Applications (Acs Professional Reference Book)
Contributors: H. M. Skip Kingston (Editor); Stephen J. Haswell (Editor)
Publisher: An American Chemical Society Publication
Published: February 24, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 800
ISBN-13: 9780841233751
Subjects: Chemical spectroscopy, spectrochemistry; Electrochemistry & magnetochemistry; Organic chemistry; Radiation Chemistry; Organic Reactions; Science; Science/Mathematics; Telecommunications; Chemistry - Physical & Theoretical; Engineering - Electrical & Electronic; Science / Chemistry / Technical & Industrial; Chemical reactions; Microwave heating
First sentence: Dr. Johnson's Dictionary of 1775 defined chemistry as "an art whereby sensible bodies contained in vessels...are so changed by means of certain instruments, and principally fire, that their several powers and virtues are thereby discovered, with a view to philosophy or medicine".