A Chemical Dictionary: containing the Words generally used in Chemistry, and many of the Terms used in the related Sciences of Physics, Astrophysics, Mineralogy, Pharmacy, and Biology, with their Pronunciations; based on recent Chemical Literature

Abstract

THE present day intensely rapid development in all branches of natural science necessarily involves a growing terminology with which even the specialists find difficulties in keeping pace. Particularly is this the case in chemistry, the encyclopaedic nature of which scarcely needs remarking. Apart from its laws and theories, chemistry has to deal with the elements, naturally occurring compounds, and with reactions, processes, and methods for obtaining the thousands of compounds continually being added to and produced as useful materials or as illustrative substances or as addenda of the science. To treat of all of these is an enormous task by itself; if, in addition, a chemical dictionary attempts to make clear the interdependence of chemistry and the other branches of natural science—physics, biology, crystallography, and geology—and the arts of medicine and pharmacy, and also makes reference to those associated with the development of chemistry and the cognate sciences, it must attain a very considerable size and be frequently brought up-to-date if its usefulness is to be maintained. A Chemical Dictionary: containing the Words generally used in Chemistry, and many of the Terms used in the related Sciences of Physics, Astrophysics, Mineralogy, Pharmacy, and Biology, with their Pronunciations; based on recent Chemical Literature. By Prof. Ingo W. D. Hackh. Pp. viii + 790. (London: J. and A. Churchill; Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son and Co., Inc., 1930.) 42s.