Dictionary of Chemistry

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Chemistry Second Edition McGraw-Hill New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be repro-duced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-07-141797-4 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-07-141046-5 All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. premiums and sales, promotions, or for use inicorporate training programs. For TERMS OF USE Hill”) and its licensors reserve all rights in and to the work. Use of this work is pile,tdisassemble, reverse engineer, reproduce, modify, create derivative works work or any part of it without McGraw-Hill’s prior consent. You may use the is strictly prohibited. Yoursright to use the work may be terminated if you fail THE WORK IS PROVIDED “AS IS”. McGRAW-HILL AND ITS LICEN- OBTAINED FROM USING THE WORK, INCLUDING ANY INFORMA- EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED that the functions contained in the work will meet your requirements or that its licensors shall be liable to you or anyone else for any inaccuracy, error or omis- McGraw-Hill has no responsibility for the content of any information accessed sors lbet liablet for any indirect, t incidental, special,l punitive,vconsequential or DOI: 10.1036/0071417974 Want to learn more? We hope you enjoy this McGraw-Hill eBook! If you d like more information about this book, its author, or related books and websites, please click here. For more information about this title, click here. Contents Preface ................................................................................................................. v Staff ...................................................................................................................... vi How to Use the Dictionary ........................................................................... vii Fields and Their Scope .................................................................................. ix Pronunciation Key ............................................................................................ x A–Z Terms ................................................................................................... 1-414 Appendix .................................................................................................. 415-431 Equivalents of commonly used units for the U.S. Customary System and the metric system .................................... 417 Conversion factors for the U.S. Customary System, metric system, and International System ...................................... 418 Defining fixed points of the International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90) ....................................................................... 422 Primary thermometry methods ............................................................ 423 Periodic table ......................................................................................... 424 Electrochemical series of the elements ............................................. 425 Average electronegativities from the thermochemical data ............ 426 Standard atomic weights ...................................................................... 427 Principal organic functional groups .................................................... 429 Compounds containing functional groups ......................................... 430 Physical properties of some organic solvents ................................... 431 Copyright 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click Here for Terms of Use. ... - tailieumienphi.vn