Conversations of Chemistry: In Which the Elements of That Science Are Familiarly Explained, and Illustrated by Experiments, and Thirty-Eight Engravings on Wood. The Fifteenth American, from the Last London Edition, with Additions and Corrections. To Which Are Now Added, Explanations of the Text -- Directions for Simplifying the Apparatus, and a Vocabulary of Terms..
by Comstock, John Lee
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- Conversations of Chemistry: In Which the Elements of That Science Are Familiarly Explained, and Illustrated by Experiments, and Thirty-Eight Engravings on Wood. The Fifteenth American, from the Last London Edition, with Additions and Corrections. To Which Are Now Added, Explanations of the Text -- Directions for Simplifying the Apparatus, and a Vocabulary of Terms..
- Author
- Comstock, John Lee
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- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Publisher
- John Beach / Collins, Reese & Co
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, [CT] / New York
- Date Published
- 1836
- Keywords
- ANTIQUARIAN, CHEMISTRY, NON_FICTION, SCIENCES, REFERENCE BOOKS, SCIENTIFIC TERMS
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- Antiquarian; General Non-Fiction;
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