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Title Chemically speaking : a dictionary of quotations / selected and arranged by Carl C. Gaither and Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither ; illustrated by Andrew Slocombe
Published Bristol : Institute of Physics Publishing, [2002]
©2002

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Description xix, 583 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Abstraction -- Accident -- Accuracy -- Acid -- Adsorption -- Aesthetic -- Affinity -- Age -- Air -- Alchemy -- Ambition -- Analogy -- Analysis -- Analyst -- Answer -- Apparatus -- Approximate -- Atom -- Atomic weight -- Authority -- Average -- Balance -- Beauty -- Biochemistry -- Book -- Bubble -- Calculation -- Candle -- Cause and effect -- Central limit theorem -- Chance -- Chaos -- Chemical -- Chemical affinities -- Chemical engineer -- Chemical limericks -- Chemical mnemonics -- Chemist -- Chemistry -- Chemistry and life -- Chemistry and medicine -- Chemistry songs -- Classroom emanations -- Commandments -- Common sense -- Communication -- Compound -- Concept -- Confusion -- Cosmochemistry -- Creativity -- Criticism -- Crystal -- Crystallography -- Curiosity -- Data -- Definition -- Demonstration -- Difference -- Discovery -- Disorder -- Distill -- Electron -- Element -- Energy -- Energy state -- Enzyme -- Error -- Ethics -- Experience -- Experiment -- Experimenter -- Explain -- Fact -- Faith -- Fermentation -- Filter -- Fire -- Fluorochemistry -- Force -- Forecast -- Formula -- Fractal -- Gas -- Generality -- Genius -- Geochemistry -- Glassware -- God -- Graph -- Guess --
Heat -- History -- Hypothesis -- Idea -- Ignorance -- Imagination -- Impossible -- Improbable -- Independence -- Inference -- Information -- Inorganic -- Instrument -- Ion -- Knowledge -- Laboratory -- Language -- Law -- Learn -- Life -- Literature -- Little Willie -- Magic -- Mathematics -- Matter -- Measurement -- Mechanics -- Metal -- Metaphor -- Metaphysics -- Method -- Microscope -- Model -- Molecule -- Motion -- Mystery -- Naïvete -- Name -- Nature -- Nomenclature -- Notation -- Null hypothesis -- Numbers -- Observation -- Occam's razor -- Opinion -- Order -- Organic -- Outlier -- Paradox -- Periodic law -- Philosophy -- Physical science -- Plagerism -- Pollution -- Postulate -- Prayer -- Precision -- Prediction -- Probability -- Problem -- Progress -- Proposition -- Publication -- Purity -- Purpose -- Question -- Radical -- Random -- Reaction -- Reason -- Research -- Results -- Rust -- Salt -- Science -- Scientific -- Scientist -- Silver trees -- Simplicity -- Solid -- Soluble -- Solution -- Speculation -- Statistical -- Statistician -- Statistics -- Symbol -- Symmetry -- Synthesis -- Teaching -- Terminology -- Theorist -- Theory -- Thermodynamics -- Thought -- Trial and error -- Truth -- Uncertainty -- Understand -- Unexpected -- Unknown -- Vacuum -- Vision -- Volume -- Water -- Wisdom -- Word -- Work -- Writing -- X-rays
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Chemistry -- Quotations, maxims, etc. -- Dictionaries.
Quotations -- Dictionaries.
Chemistry -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
Chemistry.
Genre/Form Dictionaries
Fulltext
Internet Resource
Quotations
Reference Material
Illustration
Dictionaries.
Author Gaither, Carl C., 1944-
Cavazos-Gaither, Alma E., 1955-
LC no. 2007299956
ISBN 0750306823 paperback