Creations of fire : chemistry's lively history from alchemy to the atomic age /

More than any other science, the history of chemistry is intimately linked to human history. Chemical technology has fostered the development of civilizations, altered the course of wars, generated the industrial revolution, and created the petroleum and plastics that fuel and shape our modern world...

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Main Author:	Cobb, Cathy
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Goldwhite, Harold
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Plenum Press, [1995]
Subjects:	Chemistry > History. Alchemie. Chemie. Quimica (historia) Chimie > Histoire. Chemistry. Electronic books. History.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book