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  • A woman performing chemical experiments with a furnace: representing chemistry. Etching by E-J-N. de Ghendt after C-N. Cochin the younger, 1773.
  • Méthode de nomenclature chimique / proposée par MM. de Morveau, Lavoisier, Berthol[l]et, & de Fourcroy. On y a joint un nouveau système de caractères chimiques, adaptés à cette nomenclature, par MM. Hassenfratz & Adet.
  • D.O.M.A. Alchymia Andreae Libavii, recognita, emendata, et aucta, tum dogmatibus et experimentis nonnullis; tum commentario medico physico-chymico: qui exornatus est variis instrumentorum chymicorum picturis; partim aliunde translatis, partim planè novis ... : praemissa defensione artis opposita censurae Parisianae.
  • The interior of a chemical laboratory with six people working in it (above), a table of symbols (below). Coloured line engraving after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Anniversary dinner : The Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool : Thursday April 13th 1961 at 7.30 for 8 p.m. : the president Sir Alexander Todd, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. in the chair / the Chemical Society.
  • A chemist's laboratory, with the apparatus numbered for a key. Engraving, 1748.
  • Experiments and observations on different kinds of air, and other branches of natural philosophy, connected with the subject ... / being the former six volumes abridged and methodized, with many additions. By Joseph Priestley.
  • Program of annual conclave at Yale University : New Haven, Connecticut, March 28, 1927 / American Institute of Chemists.
  • Philosophie chimique, ou Vérités fondamentales de la chimie moderne, disposées dans un nouvel ordre / par A.F. Fourcroy.
  • Royal Institution of Great Britain, Albemarle-street, August 30, 1841 : the extended and practical course of chemical lectures and demonstrations for medical and general students, delivered in the laboratory of this institution by professor Brande and E. Solly, jun., esq., will commence on Tuesday, the 5th of October at nine in the morning... / Joseph Fincher.
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Works

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    Peptidomimetics Protocols / edited by Wieslaw M. Kazmierski.

    Kazmierski, Wieslaw M. | Date: 1999
  • view The student's chemical pocket companion / by W. S. Jacobs, M.D.
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    The student's chemical pocket companion / by W. S. Jacobs, M.D.

    Jacobs, William Stephen, 1770-1843 | Date: 1807
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    Basic chemistry for biology students.

    | Date: [19??]
  • view The story of the chemical elements / by M.M. Pattison Muir.
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    The story of the chemical elements / by M.M. Pattison Muir.

    Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison), 1848-1931 | Date: 1897
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    A manual of chemistry / By William Thomas Brande.

    Brande, William Thomas, 1788-1866 | Date: 1841
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