The Condensed Chemical Dictionary: A Reference Volume for All Requiring Quick Access to a Large Amount of Essential Data Regarding Chemicals, and ... and Laboratory Work (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Turner, Francis M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330710118 ISBN 13: 9781330710111

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Condensed Chemical Dictionary: A Reference Volume for All Requiring Quick Access to a Large Amount of Essential Data Regarding Chemicals, and Other Substances Used in Manufacturing and Laboratory Work The increased importance of the chemical industries has brought into contact with these industries a large number of people not educated along chemical lines. Exporters and importers, brokers and jobbers, financial houses, lawyers, librarians, purchasing agents, insurance companies and many other classes of firms and individuals have frequent need for detailed information regarding chemicals and chemical products. The large and constantly increasing volume of such inquiries received by the Information Bureau of The Chemical Catalog Company, Inc., as well as by the public and technical libraries, has made obvious the demand existing for some one book that would supply the outstanding facts regarding the various chemicals and chemical materials ordinarily met with in commerce. Professional chemists and chemical engineers may find it hard to appreciate that there arc large numbers of people in various branches of trade who have to use or buy or sell chemical products (or who have professional or financial relations with firms doing so), who have not the least idea how to secure information on the most elemental points. The fact that the Information Bureau of The Chemical Catalog Company, Inc., is called on almost daily to answer such questions as "Is acetone a solid or a liquid "Is sulfuric acid explosive?," "What is alum used for?," "What is the boiling point of toluol?," "Where does perilla oil come from?," etc., shows that the sources of such information are none too available to non-professionals. Moreover, after asking a number of such questions, the inquirers would frequently ask, "Is there no book where we can look up things like this for ourselves? We often need information like this in our business." A thorough search of chemical literature revea

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330710118
• ISBN 13: 9781330710111
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 540