Authoritative and up-to-date, this is the perfect reference book for students of chemistry, whether at school or university. The fully revised new edition has over 1000 new entries and covers all the commonly encountered terms in chemistry, including physical chemistry and biochemistry. This book is intended for a-level students, their teachers, and first-year undergraduate students of chemistry.

 

This book is part of a book series called Oxford Reference .

This book is aimed at the following children: secondary school , university .

There are 537 pages in this book. It is a dictionary. A dictionary is a single-volume or multivolume reference work containing brief explanatory entries for terms and topics related to a specific subject or field of inquiry, usually arranged alphabetically (example: Dictionary of Neuropsychology). The entries in a dictionary are usually shorter than those contained in an encyclopedia on the same subject, but the word "dictionary" is often used in the titles of works that should more appropriately be called encyclopedias (example: Dictionary of the Middle Ages in 13 volumes). This book was published 1996 by Oxford University Press .

Della Thompson is Senior Editor in the English Dictionary Department, Oxford University Press.