McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science & Technology)
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ISBN: 0070455600 / Publisher: McGraw Hill, June 1994
Nearly eight thousand articles deal with terms and concepts in computer science, geology, chemistry, physics, meteorology, biology, and astronomy
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The first edition of the McGraw-Hill Concise is cited in ARBA 1985 , the second edition in ARBA 1990 . The material for the third edition is condensed from the essential text of the articles in the seventh edition of the acclaimed 20-volume McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (1992). The third edition of the concise encyclopedia presents numerous new developments and advances in such areas as bioelectronics, interleukin, fiber-optics imaging, fullerene, cosmogenic nuclides, art conservation chemistry, and superstring theory. With 7,900 articles (300 new to this edition), it examines aspects of disciplines including earth science, physics, spectroscopy, meteorology, medicine, astronomy, acoustics, chemistry, computers, oceanography, and atmospheric sciences. Some 1,600 photographs and line drawings, as well as numerous tables, charts, diagrams, and graphs complement the entries. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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