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Elements Of Chemistry, Including The Applications Of The Science In The Arts (Volume I)

Elements Of Chemistry, Including The Applications Of The Science In The Arts (Volume I)

Graham, Thomas

Paperback

ChemistryGeneral World HistoryPhysics

ISBN10: 9354509401
ISBN13: 9789354509407
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 20 2021
Pages: 642
Weight: 2.05
Height: 1.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
From the laboratory bench to the dye-vat, the Victorian world learned to think in atoms. Thomas Graham's Elements of Chemistry captures that moment with clarity and quiet excitement. Chemistry, made newly vivid today. Written as a rigorous chemistry textbook yet reading like a classic chemistry treatise, Volume I maps the foundations of chemical science: the behaviour of gases, the principles of combination, and the early ordering of chemical elements and compounds. Graham links theory to use, tracing applied chemistry in arts and trades where colour, glass, metals, and fermentation depended on accurate measurement. The result is a complete chemistry volume that speaks to chemistry students and teachers, to makers curious about practical industrial chemistry, and to anyone drawn to 19th century chemistry and the disciplined imagination of Victorian era science. A cornerstone in the history of chemistry classic, Graham's work stands at the threshold of modern chemical thinking, authored by a scientist whose name still lives on in the language of diffusion and colloids. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Add it to a public domain science collection, dip in for lucid explanations, or keep it on the shelf as a reminder that the craft of matter once had to be built, paragraph by paragraph. For casual readers it is approachable; for collectors, a link to the laboratories that shaped modern life.

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