The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
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The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
This
handbook will prove useful, not only to the expert and to those requiring
certain technical information, but also to the general public, whose interest in
this entrancing subject may be simply that of pleasure in the purchase,
possession, or collection of precious stones, or even in the mere examination of
them through the plate-glass of a jeweller's window. Topics covered includes:
The Origin of Precious Stones, Physical Properties— Crystalline Structure,
Colour, Hardness, Specific Gravity, Magnetic and Electric Influences, The
Cutting of Precious Stones, Imitations, and Some of the Tests of Precious
Stones, Various Precious Stones.
This PDF covers the following topics
related to Applied Chemistry : Electrochemistry and Its Importance, Electronic
Concept of Oxidation and Reduction, Types of Electrolytes, Faradays Laws of
Electrolysis, Industrial Application of Electrolysis, Fuels, Lubricants, –
Polymers and Plastics, Water.
This
handbook will prove useful, not only to the expert and to those requiring
certain technical information, but also to the general public, whose interest in
this entrancing subject may be simply that of pleasure in the purchase,
possession, or collection of precious stones, or even in the mere examination of
them through the plate-glass of a jeweller's window. Topics covered includes:
The Origin of Precious Stones, Physical Properties— Crystalline Structure,
Colour, Hardness, Specific Gravity, Magnetic and Electric Influences, The
Cutting of Precious Stones, Imitations, and Some of the Tests of Precious
Stones, Various Precious Stones.
Goal of this note is to
inculcate basic principles of chemistry aspects in different disciplines of
engineering. Topics covered includes: Electrochemistry and Batteries, Corrosion
and Its Control, Water Technology, Materials Chemistry, Fuels and Combustion.
Main objective of this book is to explain
the meaning of the terms molecular structure and geometry and electronic
structure and some interesting aspects of molecular structure through examples.
Topics covered includes: Atomic Structure, Molecular Structure, Molecular
Spectroscopy, Solid State Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Reaction Kinetics and
Dynamics, Theories of Reaction Rates, Surface Chemistry and Experiments in
Chemistry.
Author(s): Prof.
K. Mangala Sunder and Prof. B.L. Tembe
The object of the exercises in this book is to create and to foster a real
love for and interest in the great science of chemistry, to give the pupil a
broader outlook on life, and to cause him to feel that he is a factor in the
busy, living world.