
This classic and well-known reference was originally published from 1926-1930 for the National Research Council in 7 volumes. It contains an enormous amount of critical data on inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances. Featuring physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties, it is a major reference source used by those involved in chemistry, physics, and engineering.
Sections include:
- National and local systems of weights and measures
- Symbols, basic constants, conversion data, dimensions, definitions
- Chemical elements and atoms
- Laboratory technique
- Physical properties of chemical substances
- Liquid crystals
- Radioactivity
- Astronomical and geodetic data
- Aerodynamics
- Strengths and replated properties of woods
- Building stones
- Clays
- Heavy clay products and sand-lime brick
- Porcelain and whiteware
- Properties of glass
- Chemical durabilities of glasses
- Vitreous enamels for metals
- Structural cements, limes, and plasters
- Magnesia cements and concretes
- Dental cements
- Solid fuels
- Petroleums, petroleum products, and commercial oils of mineral origin
- Flash points of saturated vapors of combustible liquids
- Quantitative effects of some compounds upon detonation in internal combustion egines
- Lubricants and lubrication
- Asphalts and mineral waxes
- Explosions and gaseous experiments
- Animal and vegetable oils, fats, and waxes
- Adhesives and gelatins
- Textile fibers
- Tannins and vegetable tanning materials
- Leather
- Rubber, gutta percha, and balata
- Factitious plastics
- Commercial carbons for electrical uses
- Industrial electrical insulators
- Raw materials of the paint and varnish industries
- Toxicology of gases and vapors
- Air conditioning
- Refrigerating brines
- Sieves and screens
- Saccharimetry, the properties of commercial sugars and their solutions
- Properties of metals and alloys
- P-V-T relations for one-phase systems (density, specific gravity, thermal expansion and compressibility)
- Phase equilibrium data
- Osmotic pressure
- Properties of surfaces: surface tension, surface energy, and related properties
- Viscosity and fluidity
- Kinetics of physical processes
- Heat capacity
- Thermal effects accompanying physical and chemical processes
- Heats of solution or organic substances
- Thermal conductivity
- Radiometry (heat and light)
- Spectroscopy
- Photometric standards
- Mechanical equivalent of light
- Properties of soaps and their aqueous solutions
- X-ray data
- Electronics and gas conduction
- Dielectric constant and dielectric strength
- Electrical conductivity and resistivity
- Electrical conductivity of pure non-metallic liquids
- Electroelastic and pyroelectric phenomena
- Thermoelectricity
- Electrical conductivity of aqueous solutions