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Looking for a book.....

dunmail - 8-12-2007 at 12:13

Could anyone recommend a comprehensive chemical (with the emphasis on inorganic) data book please? I'm after something that has stuff like heats of formation, solubility constants, mp and bp etc. I of course have the CRC handbook, but to tell the truth it's not as good on inorganics (and inbetweenies like metal salts of organic acids) as I could do with. Thanks.

Sauron - 8-12-2007 at 21:36

Not a book but a large collection of books in series

Mellor's, in English

or Gmelin in German.

In both cases organized by element.

Use a library. A few volumes of Mellor are available on the forum library page for free. Chromium, and Sulfur, if I recall.

PAC - 17-12-2007 at 05:30

A comprehensive treatise on inorganic and theoretical chemistry Vol. I

A comprehensive treatise on inorganic and theoretical chemistry Vol. II

Gmelin´s Handook of chemistry Vol 1-12 and 17-18 are also availiable online (english translation from the german ones)

[Edited on 17-12-2007 by PAC]

chemrox - 18-12-2007 at 00:41

I couldn't get these to open .. just got blank pages.. server issues at my end?

not_important - 18-12-2007 at 02:27

They're roughly 900 MB each. Download and open locally, they work fine that way.

PAC - 18-12-2007 at 04:24

For downloading look here
and here

The files are even availiable as djvu, this will save over 90% of space

not_important - 18-12-2007 at 05:56

Or from here

http://www.archive.org/details/comprehensivetre00mellrich/

http://www.archive.org/details/comprehensivetre02mellrich/

for the pretty to look at form

contrived - 18-12-2007 at 16:42

CRX and I thank you all!

dunmail - 13-1-2008 at 12:10

THanks guys!