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.

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.

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

Baruch Sterman brilliantly recounts the complete, amazing story of this sacred dye that changed the color of history.

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

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

Publisher description: This book examines fibers generated entirely from chemicals.

Polymers selected for this edition include all primary polymeric materials used by the plastics and chemical industries and specialty polymers used in the electronics, pharmaceutical, medical and aerospace fields, with extensive information ...

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