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For questions, that are about scientific books, and/or scientific literature in general. Maybe especially useful in combination with reference-request or textbook-erratum.

For questions, that are about scientific books, and/or scientific literature in general.

It might be used for reference recommendations or specific questions about a book or an article.

I may be used in combination with or , to narrow the field.

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Books for a very advanced 3rd grader (elementary school)

My daughter is a 3rd grader, but she reads at 8th grade level, and she is 2 grade levels ahead in math. She reads everything she gets her hands on. She took some chemistry activities, and she loved them. ("Mad Science", "Ooo, goo and stinky…
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Is there any book as Landau's for Physics but for Chemistry?

Landau's series of books are a collection of books that describe briefly but very deeply the core part of the main fields of Physics. He wrote them rigorously and they are very very abstract. He gave Physics new approaches in those books. If you…
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What happened to the authors of 'Modern Quantum Chemistry"?

This is kind of a silly question, but my google-fu has failed me, and I can think of no better place to ask it: What ever happened to the authors of the classic "Modern Quantum Chemistry", Attila Szabo and Neil S. Ostlund? I notice that they were…
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What are some popular science books in chemistry?

I have been reading the books The Elements by Theodore Gray and Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik, both being very popular chemistry science books. Are there some other easy-to-read, popular but scientifically accurate chemistry books available? The…
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Editions of IUPAC Green Book

Why does the URL https://www.iupac.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Green-Book-PDF-Version-2011.pdf (ending in 2011) contain the Green Book labelled 2007, and reprinted in 2008? Does a 2011 edition exist and they just uploaded the wrong file? Same…
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What old chemistry textbooks are good until present day?

I have found old chemistry textbooks like Walter Moore's Physical Chemistry and Morrison&Boyd's Organic Chemistry to be really good source of information, as good as actual reference textbooks. What other books do you recommend, regardless the area,…
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A book like Feynman's Lectures to Physics, which deals with Chemistry and provides insights

I have been reading The Feynman Lectures, and it provides a lot of basic knowledge in physics. I would like to know if there exists a book for chemistry like this too.
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Most Comprehensive Chemistry Book(s)?

Although I am now taking a pretty fundamental chemistry course, I am really looking to gain an extremely comprehensive knowledge of the subject, specifically, in inorganic and organic chemistry. I am looking for two texts, keeping in mind that the…
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Chemistry books for the general reader

I’m quite interested in chemistry, but reading the textbooks are a bit challenging. Are there any good chemistry books for the general reader that go a bit beyond the basics?
Lars Nygaard
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