The Handy Chemistry Answer Book. Justin P. Lomont

      About the Authors

      Ian C. Stewart is a chemist at a petrochemical company. He formerly worked with Nobel Prize-winning chemist Robert H. Grubbs and is the recipient of several fellowships. He lives in Houston, Texas.

      Justin P. Lomont is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow whose doctoral research at the University of California Berkeley focuses on organometallic reaction mechanisms using ultra-fast infrared spectroscopy. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Stewart, Ian (Ian Christopher), 1980–

      The handy chemistry answer book / by Ian Stewart and Justin Lomont.

      pages cm – (The handy answer book series)

      ISBN 978-1-57859-374-3 (paperback)

      1. Chemistry–Miscellanea. 2. Chemistry–Examinations, questions, etc. I. Lomont, Justin. II. Title.

      QD39.2.S75 2014

      540–dc23

      201302016