A basic science concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of matter; and the reactions that occur between substances and the associated energy exchange.
    

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A woman performing chemical experiments with a furnace: representing chemistry. Etching by E-J-N. de Ghendt after C-N. Cochin the younger, 1773.

D.O.M.A. Alchymia Andreae Libavii, recognita, emendata, et aucta, tum dogmatibus et experimentis nonnullis; tum commentario medico physico-chymico: qui exornatus est variis instrumentorum chymicorum picturis; partim aliunde translatis, partim planè novis ... : praemissa defensione artis opposita censurae Parisianae.

The interior of a chemical laboratory with six people working in it (above), a table of symbols (below). Coloured line engraving after L.-J. Goussier.

Anniversary dinner : The Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool : Thursday April 13th 1961 at 7.30 for 8 p.m. : the president Sir Alexander Todd, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. in the chair / the Chemical Society.

A chemist's laboratory, with the apparatus numbered for a key. Engraving, 1748.

Istrumenti di chemica : un laboratorio del XIX secolo / Gabriella Rambaldi.

Chemical discovery and invention in the twentieth century / [Sir William Augustus Tilden].

The student's chemical pocket companion / by W. S. Jacobs, M.D.

Basic chemistry for biology students.

The story of the chemical elements / by M.M. Pattison Muir.

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Istrumenti di chemica : un laboratorio del XIX secolo / Gabriella Rambaldi.

Chemical discovery and invention in the twentieth century / [Sir William Augustus Tilden].

The student's chemical pocket companion / by W. S. Jacobs, M.D.

Basic chemistry for biology students.

The story of the chemical elements / by M.M. Pattison Muir.