100 black-and-white line illustrations. Index. Bibliography. Glossary. Cross-references. Chronology. Tables. 25 charts. 224 Pages. 7 3/8 x 9 1/4.

Topics include:
Alkaline earth metals
Bromides
Carbides
Dehydration
Element
Flourescence
Group V elements
Helium
Ion
The law of multiple proportions
Molecule
Potassium nitrate.

Biographies include:
Archimedes
George Wells Beadle
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
Marie Curie
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
Thomas Edison
Epicurus
Benjamin Franklin
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Louis Pasteur
Joseph Louis Proust
Karl Ziegler.

Tables, charts, and diagrams include:
Periodic table
Elements by group
Electron arrangements of the atom
Metals and alloys
Chemical reaction types
Chemicals from Oil
Hydrocarbons
Isomers
Polymers.