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Concise Encyclopedia Chemistry, Walter de Guyter, 1994. SCI REF QD4 A2313 | Condensed Chemical Dictionary. 12th edition. Revised by G. G. Hawley. New York: Van Nostrand, 1993. SCI REF QD5 .C74 | Elsevier's Dictionary of Chemistry: Including Terms from Biochemistry in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German, New York: Elsevier, 1983. SCI REF QD5 .D671 1983 | GABCOM & GABMET: Acronyms of Compounds and Methods in Chemistry & Physics. R. Bohrer, et al., Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1993. SCI REF QD7.G221 (A very useful resource for decoding the increasing array of compound and method acronyms.) | Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, 12th ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993. SCI REF QD5.C74 |
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 4th edition 1991. V.1-24 and Supplements and 5th edition 2004. A concise, comprehensive and authoritative source of information on the most significant and practical aspects of industrial chemistry, with a North America perspective. It is especially useful in the area of polymers. SCI REF TP9 .E5 (1991) and SCI REF TP9 .K54 (2004) | McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. New York: McGraw-Hill 1992. (This comprehensive 20 volume set covers all areas of science including the chemical sciences. each article includes a brief bibliography. Yearly updates are also provided.) SCI REF Q121.M22 | Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, 6th edition. V.1-40 2003. A concise, comprehensive and authoritative source of information on the most significant and practical aspects of industrial chemistry, with a European and Asian perspective. SCI REF TP9.U57 | | Access Science - the online version of McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology |
CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics, 82nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2001. (The first place to look for property data. Contains melting points, boiling points, solubilities, density and other data for many common substances, both organic and inorganic. Provides references to Beilstein Handbook and the Merck Index.) SCI REF QD65. H3 | CRC Composite Index, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1991. (A three volume set with a substance index to all the of CRC Press Handbooks. Especially useful if you are not sure where to look for data on a compound.) SCI REF QD65. C741 | Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, 14th ed. John A. Dean, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992. (Contains tables covering all areas of chemistry including basic property for compounds of all types.) SCI REF QD65.L27 | Merck Index, Rahway, NJ: Merck, 1996. (Descriptive information on more than 10,000 chemicals, drugs and biologicals arranged alphabetically by generic or nonproprietary name. Includes property data and references to the original literature.) SCI REF QD5 .M55 |
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