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The Merck index : an encyclopedia of chemicals and drugs / editor Paul G. Stecher.- Eighth edition.- Rahway, N.J. : Merck, 1968.- xii, 1713 p. illus. ; 26 cm
1.ª edição publicada em 1889 com o título: "Merck's index of fine chemicals and drugs for the materia medica and the arts"; 8.ª e 9.ª edição publicada com o título: "The Merck index".
QUÍMICA, FARMACOLOGIA, TOXICOLOGIA, OBRA DE REFERÊNCIA
Periodic table. Atomic weights. Explanatory notes and key to monographs. Abbreviations. Monographs (chemicals and drugs). Organic Name Reactions. Table of radioactive isotopes. Radioactive isotopes used in medical therapy and diagnosis. First aid in poisoning. Poison control centers. Abbreviated terms used by the U.S. Adopted Names Council (USAN) for pharmacologically inactive radicaIs found in drugs. International non-proprietary names for radicaIs and groups proposed
by the WHO. Code letters used by companies for experimental substances. Greek alphabet. Russian alphabet. Alchemical symbols used in biology and botany. Roman numeraIs. Prescription notation. Latin terms. Prefixes used in the metric system. Metric system of measures and weights. U.S. system of measures and weights. Equivalents of the U.S. systems of weights. Equivalents of the metric and U.S. systems of measures and weights . Comparison of U.S., British, and metric systems of liquid measure. Conversion formulas. Specific gravity comparisons. Weight of liquids per gallon. Volumetric dilutions. Percentage solution tables. Isotonic solutions. Saturated solutions. Indicators. Standard buffers for calibration of pH meters. pH Values of standard solutions. Concentration of acids and bases. Cooling mixtures. Constant humidity solutions. Anti-freeze mixtures. Thermometric equivalents (conversion af temperature scales). Four-place logarithms. Multiples of element weights and their logarithms. Formula index. Cross index of names. Appendix to monographs (chemicals and drugs). About the Publisher.