Advanced Periodic Table
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Torn between 4 and 5 stars. GREAT pullout with a ton of useful information. Downside is that it is a BUSY chart- and unless you are already familiar with the periodic table, can get confusing at times. There's just a LOT of info. I do like that, it just seems overwhelming if I just want a quick answer. So- I purchased a cheaper version that is much simpler, AND smaller for desktop use. Overall though, this is a great product especially if you are taking more than one chemistry course! It will last much longer!
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This is an excellent reference for those wishing to know more about the analysis of frames using the stiffness method.  The text is easy to follow and the development of 2D and 3D beam element stiffness matrices are presented.  Stability functions are discussed for inclusion in frame analysis.  Fortran source code examples are included in the appendix for plane frame and space frame analysis programs.
768456
I have not needed to turn to this advanced book so far.  I expect that it will come in very handy as I progress in my need for help beyond the basics in Elements 7.
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I've read most of this book and if you want to know anything about soil, water, elec. energy & the vibrations that holds it all together while also holding it apart - this is the book. Also, an amazing new formatting of the element chart - The Electric Periodic Table of Elements. For the first time I can understand chemistry and why some things kill us and others don't and why 'organic' is essential to life.  Easy to read with wide margins for note writing.
1412707
These books were a recommendation from my friend who is doing molecular simulation using cuda and needs very optimized codes! Do I have to say anything else?
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The periodic table and chemistry are beyond me.  Never took chemistry or physics in school but this book reads so well I couldn't put it down. Kean weaves such interesting stories around the elements I can't help but understand and retell them to others. The periodic table is more than a grouping of boring, funny names now. There are great stories behind the elements.
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Li Junbai's work on nanostructured biomaterials is a delight to read.  His descriptions of using natural substances with unique properties to act as templates for the fabrication of advanced materials is one of many interesting topics explained in clear and precise detail.  A variety of techniques and approaches to arrive at the desired results are presented giving the reader an excellent review of the history behind the best current methods being used.  To enhance the readers understanding of the topics being discussed, he uses a plethora of schematic illustrations, charts, tables, graphics, and SEM and TEM images of the processes and end results.  This book is excellent for students and an excellent reference for the professional.
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Great book for me (in the nanomaterial field). It filled a lot of vacancies in my understanding of the optical properties of the materials. It also seems to be up to date.
1909202
This book is amazing. It was helpful during my general chemistry and Ochem classes. I recommend using this if you need to know boiling points, melting points, structures, and other important information
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This is a good book for students and practicioners of materials science and engineering.  Unlike traditional books in materials science which focus on properties and crystal structure, this book delves into synthesis out of elements, and how the chemical composition of a material in turn determines the properties and crystal structure.  The book gives good coverage to different classes of materials such as borides, oxides, carbides, nitrides, alloys, intermetallics, and glasses.  The book also gives a good overview of the different types of materials (and their physical origins) that materials are selected for.  These include piezoelectricity, pyroelectricity, thermal conductivity, heat capacity, phase transition temperatures, elastic constants, Debye temperature, etc...  The text is accessible for engineers, chemists, and physicists, and is accompanied by many helpful illustrations and diagrams.  I recommend this as good reading for materials engineers and scientists.
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Dr. Jennie Hwang's second major book on lead-free electronics plays the ministerial role to its magisterial predecessor.  It is the facilitator, carrying us from the calm of the laboratory to the clamor of the factory floor, where theories and realities collide.  In the lead-free as in other worlds, implementation, not theory, ultimately determines survival.

The book follows the flow of factory implementation, moving from selecting the best approach, to choosing proper materials, to controlling the soldering operation, to concerns about compatibility, costs, and reliability.  The prelude is a reality check of present manufacturing practices.  Here Dr. Hwang shows us how the actual conditions of use for today's eutectic lead-tin solders, rather than theoretical arguments, justify the "drop-in" approach to lead-free replacements.

The key to manufacturing implementation is recognizing the interdependence of process decisions, to insure compatibility at every stage.  Solder selection summarizes some of the voluminous technical detail of Dr. Hwang's prior book, supplemented with side-by-side solder comparisons.

Mass reflow soldering and wave soldering comprise separate chapters, again starting from a solid base of "real-world production demands."  For mass reflow soldering, these include the difficulty of monitoring and controlling temperatures in a fast-moving environment.  Wave soldering is dismembered in detail. New hobgoblins here are dross, corrosion, turbulence, and compositional stability.  Again, case studies tie the text to factory-based data.

The open, bullet-point format of much of the material will make this a handy reference book, as well as a worthy supplement to its predecessor.  Dr. Hwang has enlisted her long industry experience, her understanding of solder manufacturing, and her sensitivity to the concerns of students in her lead-free training courses to present an exhaustive, normative, two-volume approach to lead-free technology and implementation.
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I downloaded this app because I find chemistry fascinating and took quite a few chemistry courses in college. I also like to have the elemental symbols handy when reading science related books and magazines. Not to mention the Periodic Table just looks cool.  The layout of this app is clear and easy to read, simply click on an element for a boatload of information.  The app also comes with a nice history of the Table (nine pages).  You can view the Table with or without element categories at the top - they tend to take up a lot of room but you can flip back and forth from the basic Table if necessary.

The app also has a lengthy table of constants with brief descriptions of each.  The information provided for each element will be helpful for students - the first click on an element gives the basics like atomic weight/number, classification (e.g. "non metal") and electron configuration. A second click brings up a long list of element characteristics like electrical conductivity and the date the element was discovered and who discovered it. Boiling point, melting point, and other characteristics are given in F, C, and K - which is great for us Americans who like to have a familiar scale for context.  (All other characteristics are listed in metric or the appropriate scientific notation such as eV or Joules).

All in all a handy app for students or anyone interested in chemistry.
1438560
This periodic table fits easily into my sling bag.  It's a good little reference.  I always have it handy during chemistry class.
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Preceding my Review, a few words from the review in Journal of Chemical Education (1972, authored by Beveridge ):
"...lively, interesting, excellent bridge from upper level courses to current scientific literature, recommended for gaining
breadth and perspective." That review places this publication on a pedestal to which it deserves.
This text is a beautiful exposition of (a subset of) Quantum Chemistry.
The Author's Preface : "...an attempt to be mathematically self-contained, a review of background material and inclusion of
both Classical and Quantum Electrodynamics."
Nine Chapters: The first being a sixty page review of Classical Mechanics, a lively, well-written survey.
Next,a thirty page Quantum Mechanics (historical) primer as prelude to the wonderful Third Chapter, Hilbert Space.
Fourth, Angular Momentum via commutation relations and two-electron system. As the author writes:
"If we can develop a theory of Angular Momentum based solely on commutation relations, then whatever we find can be
taken over bodily and applied to any vector operator whose components obey the same commutation rules." (page 124).
Now, we are prepared (finally) for the fifth chapter: The Chemical Bond. Everything reviewed  previously (140 pages!)
now applied assiduously to applications in Chemistry. This Chapter and the next (Symmetry) being the most
technically demanding to this point, providing contact with various approximation methods and molecular aggregates.
We read: "The method of building up a molecular orbital from a linear combination of atomic orbitals is only a rough
approximation." (Page 147). Benzene,in particular, beautifully described from various viewpoints.
"Neither a long polymer nor a crystal differs very much from an ordinary molecule except in its size," which begins
the lucid discussion of Trannslational Symmetry (Benzene, again) and ends with  brief discussion of scattering.
Chapter Seven, Vibrations and Rotations is a tour de force: Idealized triatomic molecules given ample consideration,
Phonon creation and annihilation operators introduced. (Page 217: "Try to calculate the Normal Vibrational Modes for Water.")
Chapter Eight: Interaction Between Matter And Radiation, with an elementary introduction to Dirac's Equation is a highlight.
We read: "electronic transitions are most likely when the initial and final nuclear wave functions have maximum overlap."
The final Chapter: Ions and Ligands  utilizes (again !) creation and annihilation operators and various approximation techniques.
Appendices include material  such as: Vibrations, Tensors, Representation,Projection Operators, Perturbation and Group Theory.
Problems are scattered throughout the exposition. References and Bibliography enhance further exploration.
Historical perspective is not eschewed, either. Thus, affording opportunity for the reader to take a pause before carrying on.
A fine resource, rather unique at this (elementary) level, and certainly a pedagogic masterpiece in its genre.
References to the classic text, Quantum Mechanics, by Cohen-Tannoudji, et.al., in the bibliography is yet another positive attribute.
Highly Recommended for students (fourth-year).
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I used Chemical Structure and Bonding by Roger L. DeKock and Harry B. Gray and found it very approachable.

You may also want to look at Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry: From Lewis to Electron Densities by Ronald J. Gillespie, Paul L. A. Popelier

Please see my other reviews for other undergrad chemistry books.
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This is a great gift for a student.  We gave this to a high school student who plans to major in chemistry at college.  She loved it and these other periodic chart items.  (And if your student is also a geeky math type, look around for an Acme Klein Bottle by Clifford Stoll.)

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Was going to purchase it, but then I realized its an incomplete table. Its not an updated periodic table and its missing six of the lab made elements. Why have a periodic table poster if its missing elements?