A Dictionary of Chemistry (6th edition)

This is the sixth edition of a work first published as the Concise Dictionary of Chemistry in 1985, which, in turn, was derived from the Concise Science Dictionary published by Oxford University Press in 1984 (fifth edition, re‐titled Dictionary of Science, 2005). With a new version of this work every four years since 1996, this particular title must be one of the publisher's most popular works in its handy paperback series of subject dictionaries. The series includes sibling dictionaries in biology, which contains a more thorough coverage of the biophysical and biochemical entries, and physics, which covers the more...