Providing an overview of the nature, manufacture, structure, properties, processing and applications of commercially available plastics materials, this book includes chapters on material selection and special polymers.

Finally, the book forecasts the sulfur industry's future and potential supply sources, such as worldwide oil sands. If you need a single, comprehensive book on sulfur, this is a book for your library.

Assiduously researched and deftly narrated, The Fabric of Civilization tells the story of the world’s most influential commodity.

Human hair is the subject of a remarkably wide range of scientific investigations, and the third edition of this book confirms its position as the definitive monograph on the subject.

A Perfect Red recounts the story of this legendary red dye, from its cultivation by the ancient Mexicans and discovery by 16th-century Spanish conquistadors to the European pirates, explorers, alchemists, scientists, and spies who joined in ...

The text intends to survey the whole field of macromolecular science. Its organization results from the following considerations.

“Much of life can be understood in rational terms if expressed in the language of chemistry.

The book brings the science of multilayer films to the practitioner in a concise and impactful way, presenting the fundamental understanding required to improve product design, material selection, and processes, and includes information on ...

In Framboids, David Rickard analyzes and discusses the importance of these natural, small subspherical aggregates of pyrite.

Topological restrictions. These are relevant to the understanding of the statistical properties of elementary particles and the entanglement phenomena in polymer physics and biophysics.