Chemistry - best books

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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by: Sam Kean
3.93 avg rating — 54,820 ratings
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The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe 4.43 avg rating — 5,371 ratings
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History 3.97 avg rating — 7,042 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York 4.01 avg rating — 36,511 ratings
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Uncle Tungsten
Uncle Tungsten 3.99 avg rating — 6,919 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating — 412,807 ratings
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General Chemistry (Dover Books on Chemistry)
General Chemistry (Dover Books on Chemistry) 4.16 avg rating — 693 ratings
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The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler 4.35 avg rating — 4,448 ratings
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A Chemical History of a Candle
A Chemical History of a Candle 3.94 avg rating — 628 ratings
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The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus
The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus 3.80 avg rating — 537 ratings
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Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You
Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You 4.21 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything, Book 2 of 3
Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything, Book 2 of 3 4.45 avg rating — 1,055 ratings
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Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements
Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements 3.72 avg rating — 4,839 ratings
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The Double Helix
The Double Helix 3.84 avg rating — 19,749 ratings
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World 3.67 avg rating — 1,876 ratings
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Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World
Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World
by: Nick Lane
4.14 avg rating — 2,835 ratings
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The Periodic Table
The Periodic Table 4.14 avg rating — 18,740 ratings
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Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home - But Probably Shouldn't
Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home - But Probably Shouldn't 4.16 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Reactions: An Illustrated Exploration of Elements, Molecules, and Change in the Universe, Book 3 of 3
Reactions: An Illustrated Exploration of Elements, Molecules, and Change in the Universe, Book 3 of 3 4.35 avg rating — 339 ratings
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What Einstein Told His Cook
What Einstein Told His Cook 3.85 avg rating — 4,225 ratings
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The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison
The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison 3.80 avg rating — 547 ratings
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The Joy of Chemistry: The Amazing Science of Familiar Things
The Joy of Chemistry: The Amazing Science of Familiar Things 3.86 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World 3.87 avg rating — 2,401 ratings
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
by: Sam Kean
4.26 avg rating — 13,462 ratings
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World 4.11 avg rating — 20,492 ratings
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The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance
The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance 4.09 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry
Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry 4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women 4.16 avg rating — 176,342 ratings
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Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements
Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements 4.25 avg rating — 421 ratings
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Radar, Hula Hoops, and Playful Pigs: 67 Digestible Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life
Radar, Hula Hoops, and Playful Pigs: 67 Digestible Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life 3.95 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Mendeleyev's Dream
Mendeleyev's Dream 4.01 avg rating — 855 ratings
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Atkins' Molecules
Atkins' Molecules 4.17 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Every Molecule Tells a Story
Every Molecule Tells a Story 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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What Einstein Told His Cook 2: The Sequel: Further Adventures in Kitchen Science
What Einstein Told His Cook 2: The Sequel: Further Adventures in Kitchen Science 3.85 avg rating — 827 ratings
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A Tale of Seven Elements
A Tale of Seven Elements 3.30 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction
The Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction 3.61 avg rating — 335 ratings
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Salt: A World History
Salt: A World History 3.75 avg rating — 75,168 ratings
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The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, And Degas' Horse: The Remarkable Autobiography Of The Award Winning Scientist Who Synthesized The
The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, And Degas' Horse: The Remarkable Autobiography Of The Award Winning Scientist Who Synthesized The 3.87 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture
Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture 4.14 avg rating — 157 ratings
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The Sceptical Chymist
The Sceptical Chymist 3.44 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
by: Sam Kean
4.25 avg rating — 4,576 ratings
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A Perfect Red
A Perfect Red 3.88 avg rating — 3,062 ratings
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Organic Chemistry as a Second Language: First Semester Topics
Organic Chemistry as a Second Language: First Semester Topics 4.51 avg rating — 654 ratings
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Chemistry: The Central Science
Chemistry: The Central Science 3.89 avg rating — 1,066 ratings
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Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything 4.05 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us
Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us 3.69 avg rating — 1,628 ratings
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Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine 4.18 avg rating — 5,017 ratings
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Nobel Lectures in Chemistry, Vol 2 (1922-1941)
Nobel Lectures in Chemistry, Vol 2 (1922-1941) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry (Cartoon Guide Series)
The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry (Cartoon Guide Series) 4.03 avg rating — 858 ratings
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Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life
Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life 3.97 avg rating — 211 ratings
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The Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements
The Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements 3.81 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Why There's Antifreeze in Your Toothpaste: The Chemistry of Household Ingredients
Why There's Antifreeze in Your Toothpaste: The Chemistry of Household Ingredients 3.59 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element
Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element 3.82 avg rating — 307 ratings
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Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout 4.02 avg rating — 6,059 ratings
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Molecules That Amaze Us
Molecules That Amaze Us 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic 4.01 avg rating — 3,270 ratings
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug 4.09 avg rating — 5,802 ratings
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Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough
Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough 3.60 avg rating — 408 ratings
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Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story 4.41 avg rating — 3,468 ratings
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Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy
Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy 3.69 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Madame Curie: A Biography
Madame Curie: A Biography 4.37 avg rating — 4,979 ratings
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Why Things Break: Understanding the World By the Way It Comes Apart
Why Things Break: Understanding the World By the Way It Comes Apart 3.66 avg rating — 386 ratings
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The Diamond Makers
The Diamond Makers 4.23 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Elements of Chemistry (Dover Books on Chemistry)
Elements of Chemistry (Dover Books on Chemistry) 3.91 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Tihkal: The Continuation
Tihkal: The Continuation 4.42 avg rating — 1,174 ratings
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On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen 4.46 avg rating — 16,091 ratings
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Nobel Lectures in Chemistry, Vol 3 (1942-1962)
Nobel Lectures in Chemistry, Vol 3 (1942-1962) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Traces Of The Past: Unraveling The Secrets Of Archaeology Through Chemistry (Contemporary Issues in Museum Cultures
Traces Of The Past: Unraveling The Secrets Of Archaeology Through Chemistry (Contemporary Issues in Museum Cultures 3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The 100 Most Important Chemical Compounds: A Reference Guide
The 100 Most Important Chemical Compounds: A Reference Guide 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Cosmochemistry
Cosmochemistry 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A New System of Chemical Philosophy Volume 2
A New System of Chemical Philosophy Volume 2 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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DNA: The Secret of Life
DNA: The Secret of Life 4.11 avg rating — 2,805 ratings
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The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution
The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution 3.63 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Selected Papers of Robert S. Mulliken
Selected Papers of Robert S. Mulliken 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States
Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States 3.84 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Suffer and Survive: The Extreme Life of J.S. Haldane
Suffer and Survive: The Extreme Life of J.S. Haldane 4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Astrochemistry: From Astronomy to Astrobiology
Astrochemistry: From Astronomy to Astrobiology 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Concerning the Nature of Things
Concerning the Nature of Things it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry
Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry 4.17 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
by: Nick Lane
4.07 avg rating — 1,003 ratings
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Stellar Alchemy: The Celestial Origin of Atoms
Stellar Alchemy: The Celestial Origin of Atoms really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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An Ocean of Air: a Natural History of the Atmosphere [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2007] Gabrielle Walker
An Ocean of Air: a Natural History of the Atmosphere [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2007] Gabrielle Walker 4.16 avg rating — 569 ratings
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The Chemistry of Alchemy: From Dragon's Blood to Donkey Dung, How Chemistry Was Forged
The Chemistry of Alchemy: From Dragon's Blood to Donkey Dung, How Chemistry Was Forged 3.75 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Mad Science 2: Experiments You Can Do At Home, But STILL Probably Shouldn't
Mad Science 2: Experiments You Can Do At Home, But STILL Probably Shouldn't 4.38 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Molecules That Changed the World
Molecules That Changed the World 3.33 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf: How the elements were named
Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf: How the elements were named 3.50 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Astrobiology: A Brief Introduction
Astrobiology: A Brief Introduction 3.98 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Snowflakes
Snowflakes 4.49 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
by: Tim James
4.26 avg rating — 1,154 ratings
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That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles: 62 All-New Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life
That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles: 62 All-New Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life 3.77 avg rating — 417 ratings
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The Physics and Chemistry of Color, 2nd Edition
The Physics and Chemistry of Color, 2nd Edition 4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Crystallography: A Very Short Introduction
Crystallography: A Very Short Introduction 3.92 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Culinary Reactions: The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking
Culinary Reactions: The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking 3.61 avg rating — 868 ratings
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Solid State and Molecular Theory: A Scientific Biography
Solid State and Molecular Theory: A Scientific Biography 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology 3.93 avg rating — 12,327 ratings
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Solids and Surfaces: A Chemist's View of Bonding in Extended Structures
Solids and Surfaces: A Chemist's View of Bonding in Extended Structures 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science 3.97 avg rating — 9,815 ratings
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Modern Molecular Photochemistry
Modern Molecular Photochemistry 4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Elementary Crystallography: An Introduction to the Fundamental Geometric Features of Crystals
Elementary Crystallography: An Introduction to the Fundamental Geometric Features of Crystals it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy
Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy 3.76 avg rating — 245 ratings
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