Fontana history of chemistry
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The Fontana History of Chemistry, which draws extensively on both the author’s own original research and that of other scholars world wide, is conceived as a work of synthesis. Nothing like it has been attempted in decades.
The Fontana History of Chemistry, which draws extensively on both the author’s own original research and that of other scholars world wide, is conceived as a work of synthesis. Nothing like it has been attempted in decades.
Beginning with the first tentative chemical explorations where primitive technology and techniques were deployed, Dr Brock proceeds via the alchemists’ futile, but frequently profitable, efforts to turn lead into gold to recount the emergence of the modern discipline of chemistry as fashioned by Boyle, Lavoisier and Dalton. He provides a particularly generous critical account of chemical developments during the last 150 years, emphasizing the roles of purity, analysis and synthesis, the exploration of reaction mechanisms, and the industrialization of chemical change, while also weighing up just how chemistry has been taught and disseminated.
While brilliantly successful in explaining and exploiting chemical change, modern chemistry – in academy and factory alike – with its recondite language and symbolism and its associations with pollution and danger, prompts more fear than excitement in the uninitiated bystander. This book seeks to enlighten that bystander: to assess links between theory and practice, to reveal recurrent cycles and themes, and to encourage a heightened awareness of the human dimensions of the chemical sciences which might in turn promote a better public understanding of chemistry and the modern chemical and phamaceutical industries..
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 juli 2008
Aantal pagina's: 776
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: William Brock
Hoofduitgeverij: BPOQ
Product breedte: 129 mm
Product hoogte: 49 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 123 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 56 mm
Verpakking lengte: 202 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 272 g
EAN: 9780007292912