Updates…

Links to following books in the Science for Everyone series have been restored. Please check and report of errors if any. Some are major revisions over the older links.

Physics and Geometry of Disorder: Percolation Theory A. L. Efros

Physics In Your Kitchen Lab I. K. Kikoin (Ed.)

Problems in Plane Geometry I. F. Sharygin

Physical Paradoxes and Sophisms V. N. Lange 1987

Satellite and Typhoon : Eye to Eye S.N. Baibakov and A.I. Martynov

Semiconductors Made Simple A. M. Polyakov

Silhouettes of Chemistry D. N. Trifonov, L. G. Vlasov

Storming The Fortress of Fusion G. S. Voronov

Temperature Ya. A. Smorodisnky

The Nature of Magnetism M.I. Kaganov, V.M. Tsukernik

Yes, No or Maybe Ya. I Khurgin 1985

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Updates…

Links to following books in the Science for Everyone series have been restored. Please check and report of errors if any.

In The World of Binary Stars V. N. Lipunov 1989

Luminescence in Public Health N. N Barashkov

Me or Not Me R. V. Petrov

Problems in Solid Geometry I. F. Sharygin

This Fascinating Astronomy V. N. Komarov

The Grand Biological Clock V.M. Dilman

The Greatest Speed S.R. Filonovich





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Practical Inorganic Chemistry

In this post we will see a book titled Practical Inorganic Chemistry by O. J. Vorobyoca, K. M. Dunaeva, E. A. Ippolitova, and N. S. Tamm and was edited by V. I. Spitsyn.

Students using the
present textbook will acquaint themselves with procedures of work
in a modern laboratory. The latter include the carrying out of operations
in vacuum, synthesis in non-aqueous solvents, the conducting
of reactions in a gaseous medium (a fluidized bed, “transport” reactions)
or in liquefied gases, photolytic reduction and oxidation, and
the preparation of pure substances (sublimation, recrystallization,
extraction, chromatography, and distillation). Students will acquire
skill in handling glass and quartz ware on standard joints, cryostats,
thermostats, “dry” chambers, and simple measuring instruments.

The present book devotes a lot of space to the synthesis of the
most important inorganic compounds and the chemistry of the
elements. Since the book contains a large number of experiments and
syntheses, they cannot be performed by the students during the time
allotted for practical work, and the authors have divided the laboratory
works of each chapter into two parts. The first describes the
obligatory experiments, and the second, supplementary experiments
and syntheses.

The large number of diverse syntheses in the book enable the instructor
to vary the assignments to the students and thus expand
their chemical outlook.

The book was translated from the Russian by G. Leib and was first published by Mir in 1987.

All credits to the original uploader.

You can get the book here.

 

Update 16 May 2018: The Internet Archive link

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Updates…

Links to following titles in Science for Everyone Series have been updated, please check and report errors if any:

Elementary Kinematics of Elementary Particles G. I. Kopylov 1983

Encounters with Physicists and Physics I.K. Kikoin. 1989

Flying Trains G. Zelkin 1986

How We See What We See V. Demidov 1986

Some are improved versions of the files.

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Space Chemistry

We now come to Space Chemistry by L. Nikolaev. The book covers aspects of astrophysics and astronomy with stars, planets, comets and meteorites and other celestial bodies from a perspective of chemistry and hence that of spectroscopy. The last chapter is on ways of formation of organic molecules in space.

In this small book an attempt has been made to set forth the distinguishing features of the chemical phenomena characteristic of outer space. We have allotted special attention to the theoretical and experimental methods of investigation of space, avoiding however, repetition of the material contained in school courses of physics and chemistry. At the same time, striving to make the book as popular as possible, we confined ourselves only to the most essential information concerning the nature of the atomic nucleus, the laws of nuclear energetics, the origin of various kinds of spectra, etc. The scope of the knowledge of physics, chemistry and mathematics given at our secondary schools is quite sufficient for understanding this book.

The textbook is designed for upper grade students of secondary schools. It contains information about the chemical composition of the planets of solar system, meteorites, the Sun, about synthesis of elements on the stars, the methods of studying space chemistry, as well as catalytic nature of nuclear processes.

The author describes the behaviour of substances at very high and very low temperatures and pressures, considers the possibility of the formation of organic compounds in outer space and in pre-biological period on Earth.

This book was translated from the Russian by Y. Nadler and was first published by Mir in 1976.

You can get the book here. and here

Update: Added Internet Archive link. 03 December 2015

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Chemical Elements: How They Were Discovered

We now come to another book by D. N. Trifonov and V. D. Trifonov  on history of chemistry titled Chemical Elements: How They Were Discovered.

In this book we shall describe how the alphabet of chemistry has been designed and how the inquisitive mind of the researchers discovered new chemical elements, one after another.

The history of chemical elements begins with their discovery. Although hefty volumes in which elements are described in detail pay very little attention to their discoveries, they are a major part of the history of human knowledge.

Each element has its own “biography”, interesting in its own way. The history of the discovery of many elements has not yet been exhaustively studied and quite a number of unclear issues should be cleared by historians of chemistry. Perhaps you will be one of them…

This is again one of the first books in my collection, and I had stumbled on it accidentally while looking for some other book when I was in school. We do know of translations in Hindi and Bengali. I do not know if there are any other translations of this book, any inputs in this regard would be great.

The book was translated from the Russian by O.A. Glebov and I.V. Poluyan and was first published by Mir in1982 and was reprinted in 1985.

 

 

Many thanks to gnv64 for this book.

You can get the book here. and here

Bengali version here and here

Hindi version here and here

Update:  Added IA link 12 August 2016

For torrent go here.

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Elementary Order: Mendeleev’s Periodic System

In this post we look at another book by I. V. Petryanov and D. N. Trifonov (whom we have met earlier in a Science for Everyone book titled Silhouttes of Chemistry) This book traces the history of development of periodic table and is titled Elementary Order: Mendeleev’s Periodic System.

Also we see how we have developed a better and deeper understanding of the order in elements after advent of quantum mechanics .

The book was translated from Russian by Nicholas Weinstein and was first published by Mir in 1984.

You can get the book here.

and here

Update: 06 December 2015 | Added Internet Archive Link

Many thanks to gnv64 for this book.

 

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Experiments Without Explosions

We now see another wonderful book in chemistry titled Experiments Without Explosions by O. M. Olgin.

The book consists of six parts. The first part contains advice on how to set up a home laboratory, and preliminary instructions that are essential for any beginning chemist on how to work, and the dos and don’ts of chemistry. The other five parts of this book describe the experiments, experiments without explosions. In order to separate the groups of experiments, and make it easier for the reader to select an experiment, each part is divided into chapters.

Many thanks to gnv64 for this book.

You can get the book here.

and here

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On Rare and Scattered Metals – Venetsky

In this post we will see a book titled On Rare and Scattered Metals by S. Venetsky, which is a sort of sequel to the book titled Tales About Metals.

This book tells about some rare metals (including those called trace elements) and can be regarded as a second part of S. I. Venetsky’s Tales About Metals (It was published in English by Mir Publishers, Moscow, in 1981).
The author follows the same principle as in his previous work: rather than giving the reader any exhaustive information about every chemical element he describes, to tell him some interesting facts, curious incidents and tales associated with rare metals, to tell about the thorny path of any major scientific discovery and about some paths yet to be trodden in the amazing world of metals.

There is a Marathi translation of the prequel Tales About Metals titled घातुंच्या नवलकथा and was one of the first Mir Books that I read.  I do not know if there are translations of this book in any other Indian language, if you know of any, please let us know.

Update: Hindi translation titled काहानियां धातुओं की for Tales About Metals is there and Marathi translation of On Rare and Scattered Metals titled दुर्मिळ आणि विखुरलेले धातु is there.

Will try to post Tales About Metals soon is posted.

This book was translated from the Russian by by N. G. Kittell, and was first published by Mir in 1983.

Many thanks to gnv64 for making this available.

You can get the book here.

and here

To get torrent for this file go here.

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Updates…

Following links have been updated some improvements from original files, check and report any errors if any:

Science for Everyone – Aptitude Test Problems in Physics

Science for Everyone – Differential Equations in Applications

Science for Everyone – Electrons and Crystals

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