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9781849733243 (pbk.) |
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1849733244 |
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(OCoLC)745978787 |
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(OCoLC)768483826 |
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QD15 |
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.B76 2011 |
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540 |
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23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Brock, W. H. |
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(William Hodson) |
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| Title |
The case of the poisonous socks : |
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tales from chemistry / |
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William H. Brock. |
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Cambridge, UK : |
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RSC Pub., |
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c2011. |
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xiv, 348 p. : |
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ill., ports. : |
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23 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-326) and index. |
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Part 1. Chemical futures. The case of the poisonous socks ; Taste, smell and flavour ; Tales of Hofmann ; Liebig on toast ; The future of research at the Royal Institution (London) and the Smithsonian Institution (Washington) ; The future of chemistry in 1901 ; The Alchemical Society, 1912-1915 -- Part 2. Organizing chemistry. Putting the "S" in the "Three R's" ; The London Chemical Society, 1824 ; The state of chemistry in Britain in 1846 ; The laboratory before and after Liebig ; The chemical origins of practical physics ; Chemical algebra ; The B-Club ; Chemistry by discovery in a phrase -- |
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Part 3. A cluster of chemists. Amedeo Avogadro ; Liebig and Wohler : creating a path through the dark province of organic nature ; August Kekule (1829-1896) : theoretical chemist ; The Don Quixote of chemistry : Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1817-1880) ; The epistle of Henry the chemist ; He knew he was right : Fritz Haber ; J.R. Partington (1886-1965) : physical chemistry in deed and word ; Henry Crookes, founder of Crookes Laboratories ; A life of magic chemistry -- Part 4. Women chemists. Women in alchemy and chemistry ; Teaching chemistry to women ; Musical affinities ; Edith Hilda Usherwood (1898-1988) and the Ingold Partnership -- |
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Part 5. Chemical books and journals. The fate of eponymous chemical journals ; The lamp of learning : Richard Taylor and the textbook ; "The greatest work which England has ever produced" : Henry Watts and the Dictionary of Chemistry ; Chemistry in the aquarium ; Insurance chemistry ; Math for chemists ; The chemistry of pottery ; Baker's dozens -- Part 6. Lost to chemistry. They also ran ; Who was Crookes's musician-chemist? ; The chemist from Hanwell Asylum ; George Du Maurier (1834-1896) ; Sir Stafford Cripps ; The chemist as novelist : the case of C.P. Snow. |
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A collection of essays containing 42 tales of chemists and their discoveries from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
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Chemistry |
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History |
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19th century. |
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Chemistry |
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History |
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20th century. |
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Discoveries in science. |
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