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Author Levere, Trevor Harvey.

Title Transforming matter : a history of chemistry from alchemy to the buckyball / Trevor H. Levere.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 215 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of science
Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of science.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents First steps: from alchemy to chemistry? -- Robert Boyle: chemistry and experiment -- A German story: what burns, and how -- An enlightened discipline: chemistry as science and craft -- Different kinds of air -- Theory and practice: the tools of revolution -- Atoms and elements -- Rise of organic chemistry -- Atomic weights revisited -- Birth of the teaching-research laboratory -- Atoms in space -- Physical chemistry: a discipline comes of age -- Nature of the chemical bond -- Where now, and where next? new frontiers -- Suggested further reading.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Chemistry -- History.
Chemistry.
History.
Chemistry -- history.
Alchemy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Levere, Trevor Harvey. Transforming matter. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 080186609X (DLC) 00011487 (OCoLC)45094008
ISBN 0801873630 (electronic book)
9780801873638 (electronic book)
080186609X (alkaline paper)
9780801866098 (alkaline paper)
0801866103 (paperback)
9780801866104 (paperback)