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Title: CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 84th Edition by David R. Lide ISBN: 0-8493-0484-9 Publisher: CRC Press Pub. Date: 19 June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $139.95 |
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Summary: Represents Our Technological Civilisation
Comment: Some years ago, an author in a science fiction magazine put forth a gedanken (thought experiment). Suppose you would be transported to another planet and you had to attempt to rebuild our civilisation. But you could only take 6 books with you.
What would you take?
Well, that author gave a list of his suggestions. One of which was this; well an earlier edition anyway. He pointed out something about the Rubber Handbook, which is what anyone who regularly uses this book calls it. So easy to take for granted, because in any lab, you can usually rummage around and find some edition of it. But it represents millions of hours of engineering and research to measure and collate its results.
If there is one book that summarises the engineering of our civilisation, it is this.
Always nice to see CRC continually updating it. But having said the above, whether you need this latest edition is another matter. The changes are incremental. If you have an older edition, and there is no specific reason to upgrade, then you probably shouldn't. Note that I did not say never. Just tell yourself you can defer it till next year. Then, at that time, ask yourself again.
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Title: Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, & Biologicals by Maryadele J. O'Neil, Ann Smith, Patricia E. Heckelman, Susan Budavari, Merck ISBN: 0911910131 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook by Robert H. Perry, Donald W. Green ISBN: 0070498415 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $150.00 |
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Title: CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae, 31st Edition by Daniel Zwillinger ISBN: 1584882913 Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC Pub. Date: 27 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Lange's Handbook of Chemistry by John A. Dean ISBN: 0070163847 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 30 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $125.00 |
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Title: Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary (14th Edition) by Richard J. Lewis, Richard J. Lewis ISBN: 0471387355 Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Pub. Date: 10 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $162.00 |
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