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to the tour of the online edition of The CRC Handbook
of Chemistry and Physics, one of the most important
data reference books used by scientists worldwide for
over fifty years. Corresponding to the 86th Edition in
content, this new version enables quick and easy access
to everything the Handbook has to offer. Whether
you want to browse through the Table of Contents or search
for a specific piece of data, you'll be sure to find what
you were looking for, and more quickly than ever before.
The 86th Edition continues the tradition of updating
existing tables with the most current data and introducing
new topics of interest to the scientific community. In
designing the electronic version we have attempted to
retain the look and feel of the printed book as far as
possible. However, since there were no page limit restrictions,
it was possible to expand several tables in the electronic
version and to retain tables dropped from the book.
Fig 1: The front page of web version
of the Handbook of Chemistry & Physics
Outstanding features of the
86th edition:
- Completely revised, reformatted and enhanced Physical
Constants of Organic Compounds table. This now contains
almost 11,000 compounds that have been selected on the
basis of their importance in research, teaching, industrial
applications, and health and safety considerations.
Structure diagrams have been redrawn and physical constant
values have been updated with results from recent literature.
- Chemical carcinogens - now with updated data from
the recent NTP 10th Report on Carcinogens
- Critical Constants table - expanded and updated to
reflect new and more accurate measurements of critical
temperature, pressure, and molar volume, as well as
normal boiling point of 858 fluids. These parameters
are widely used to specify fluid properties and as input
to various estimation schemes. References to the original
literature have been added to the new table.
Other refinements and new topics
include:
- Properties of Refrigerants - Expanded and
Updated
- Fermi Energy and Related Properties of Metals - New!
- Flame and Bead tests - Back by popular demand!
- Density of ethanol-water mixtures - Back by
popular demand!
- Interstellar Molecules - Updated
- Directory of Physical and Chemical Data Sources -
Updated
- Ionization Potentials of Atoms - Updated
- Neutron Cross Sections - Updated
We hope you enjoy the tour!
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