Chemistry Books

This is THE book for chemical sensing with FET. Madou, equally comfortable in semiconductors and electrochemistry, weaves through both fields at a fundamental level and makes clear, concise interdisciplinary links. Excellent!

Every page was worth the $18.44 cents it cost me to read! One would think "for the cost of $8000, one better be able to do rocket science after reading." Well, I have even better news. After I closed this book, I realized I had gained the knowledge to spontaneously teleport! That's right! I don't even need this junky telepod anymore.

I'm a quemical eng. working in SMP proces and, can to read this information it's geat

I did not read the whole book, which was quite technical.
There was a section describing the nerve agent soman, and the separation of its four stereoisomers by capillary gas chromatography. There was also research described in which the four stereoisomers were separated and had their individual toxicities determined in animals. This section was fascinating and its contemplation gave me the shivers to think of the danger involved handling this dreadful poison.
One thing I would criticize( as a neophyte in this area of research) is the constant use of acronyms. A glossary would be very helpful.
I noticed one error : the authors characterized dieldrin and aldrin as organophosphates, which they are not.

This, in my view , is the best book on the subject. It combines extensive discussion of the history of these agents, reviews of the physics of agent dispersal, and extensive discussion of both basic pharmacology and pricipals of treatment.
Any physician involved in preparation for these agents should have this book. Please note, this is not a basic or public interest book, but a serious scientific review.

In my opinion this is the best book ever written on chemically reacting flow. Unlike many other books on this subject, it focuses on formulating models exactly and solving them using state-of-the-art computational methods. By "exactly" I mean models that attempt to simulate chemical kinetics and transport phenomena at the molecular level. The book is aimed at chemical engineering applications, and consequently it is limited to thermally compressible flows ( low Mach numbers). The problems at the end of the chapters are generally very good and frequently involve issues that arise in real research applications. My only quibble is that the chapter on reaction-rate theory focuses too much on QRRK methods, which were really superseded by RRKM theory about 50 years ago.

wonderful index makes this a very usable se

Annotation This autobiography details the interaction of an eminent scientist, Glenn Seaborg, with the highest levels of government in the U.S. during an important period for both science and public policy. Seaborg worked for each administration from 1946 to 1996. The work is based on meticulous notes that he recorded each day. Much of the material in the chapters consists of unedited excerpts from his personal diary, which are interesting, but often too detailed for general readers. Sections at the end of each chapter contain personal reflections that provide many fascinating insights into the personalities of the nation's leaders. The book also contains numerous photos of Seaborg taken with presidents and other dignitaries.

"The Chemist Companion" is a must for the laboratory scientist. It is an invaluable resource for everyday questions like recipes for solvent mixtures, cooling baths, cleaning baths, etc. The index is straightforward and easy to use. Much of the information is in easy-to-read tables. Information is referenced and clearly written. A valuable resource!

Books on writing technical English are quite common, and some of them are useful. However, they are not usually the sort of books to be read for entertainment or for which description "witty and amusing" springs to mind.

Robert Schoenfeld's book is the exception to all this. It has a great deal of perfectly serious things to say, and its advice is generally excellent, but it manages to be effortlessly humorous at the same time. Probably in reality it wasn't effortless at all, but it just reads that way, like the best journalism. Schoenfeld was for many years the editor of the Australian Journal of Chemistry, and most of his book appeared originally as articles in Chemistry in Australia, so he was a sort of journalist, but was clearly a chemist first.

You might doubt that it would be possible to be witty and entertaining about a subject apparently as dry as quantity calculus -- basically, whether you should label the axis of your graph with x (cm), as Schoenfeld and I would prefer, or with x/cm, as many of the leaders in chemical thermodynamics insist with a passion that might seem hard to credit -- but you would be wrong. Even though I have now read the two chapters on this subject many times, I can still read them one more time just for the amusement -- and really, the whole book is like that: Schoenberg manages to find amusing things to say about such uninviting topics as the balancing of parentheses and the use of mathematical symbols in English sentences.

The main (and trivial) complaint that I have about this book is that it is written primarily for chemists, and I would like to have a book that was directed more towards biochemists. I have sometimes thought of stealing Schoenfeld's idea and writing one myself, but unfortunately I'm not witty enough.