Chemistry in the service of man

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE CHEMISTRY OF ILLUMINANTS At the present time when, by the mere touch of the finger on a button, we ca...

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Tác giả chính: Findlay, Alexander
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Được phát hành: New York Harper and Row 1960
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