Chemistry: A Volatile History Chemistry: A Volatile History Chemistry: A Volatile History is a 2010 BBC documentary on the history of chemistry presented by Jim Al-Khalili. It was nominated for the 2010 British Academy Television Awards in the category Specialist Factual. Only in the last 200 years have we known what an element is – a substance that cannot be broken down further by chemical reaction. The Ancient Greeks, with no way of breaking open substances, could only base their ideas of the elements on what they could see: Earth, Fire, Water and Air. In the 16th century alchemists were busy trying to turn
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is a comprehensive one-volume reference resource for science research, currently in its 99th edition ( with 1532 pages, 1000 black-and-white illustrations, June 18, 2018, Editor-in-Chief John R. Rumble). It is sometimes nicknamed the 'Rubber Bible' or the 'Rubber Book', as CRC originally stood for "Chemical Rubber Company". As late as the 1962–1963 edition (3,604 pages) the "Handbook" contained myriad information for every branch of science and engineering. Sections in that edition include: Mathematics, Properties and Physical Constants, Chemical Tables, Properties of Matter, Heat, Hygrometric and Barometric Tables,