Union Square & Co. Milestones
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Union Square & Co. Milestones

From Gunpowder to Graphene, 250 Milestones in the History of Chemistry

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Union Square & Co. Milestones

From Gunpowder to Graphene, 250 Milestones in the History of Chemistry

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From atoms and fluorescent pigments to sulfa drug synthesis and buckyballs, this lush and authoritative chronology presents 250 milestones in the world of chemistry. As the "central science" that bridges biology and physics, chemistry plays an important role in countless medical and technological advances. Covering entertaining stories and unexpected applications, chemist and journalist Derek B. Lowe traces the most important—and surprising—chemical discoveries.

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Publisher
Union Square & Co.
Year
2016
ISBN
9781454917281
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Chemistry
Index
Chemistry

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. About This Book
  8. c. 500,000 BCE: Crystals
  9. c. 3300 BCE: Bronze
  10. c. 2800 BCE: Soap
  11. c. 1300 BCE: Iron Smelting
  12. c. 1200 BCE: Purification
  13. c. 550 BCE: Gold Refining
  14. c. 450 BCE: The Four Elements
  15. c. 400 BCE: Atomism
  16. 210 BCE: Mercury
  17. c. 60 CE: Natural Products
  18. c. 126: Roman Concrete
  19. c. 200: Porcelain
  20. c. 672: Greek Fire
  21. c. 800: The Philosopher’s Stone
  22. c. 800: Viking Steel
  23. c. 850: Gunpowder
  24. c. 900: Alchemy
  25. c. 1280: Aqua Regia
  26. c. 1280: Fractional Distillation
  27. 1538: Toxicology
  28. 1540: Diethyl Ether
  29. 1556: De Re Metallica
  30. 1605: The Advancement of Learning
  31. 1607: Yorkshire Alum
  32. 1631: Quinine
  33. 1661: The Sceptical Chymist
  34. 1667: Phlogiston
  35. 1669: Phosphorus
  36. 1700: Hydrogen Sulfide
  37. c. 1706: Prussian Blue
  38. 1746: Sulfuric Acid
  39. 1752: Hydrogen Cyanide
  40. 1754: Carbon Dioxide
  41. 1758: Cadet’s Fuming Liquid
  42. 1766: Hydrogen
  43. 1774: Oxygen
  44. 1789: Conservation of Mass
  45. 1791: Titanium
  46. 1792: Ytterby
  47. 1804: Morphine
  48. 1805: Electroplating
  49. 1806: Amino Acids
  50. 1807: Electrochemical Reduction
  51. 1808: Dalton’s Atomic Theory
  52. 1811: Avogadro’s Hypothesis
  53. 1813: Chemical Notation
  54. 1814: Paris Green
  55. 1815: Cholesterol
  56. 1819: Caffeine
  57. 1822: Supercritical Fluids
  58. 1828: Beryllium
  59. 1828: Wöhler’s Urea Synthesis
  60. 1832: Functional Groups
  61. 1834: Ideal Gas Law
  62. 1834: Photochemistry
  63. 1839: Polymers and Polymerization
  64. 1839: Daguerreotype
  65. 1839: Rubber
  66. 1840: Ozone
  67. 1842: Phosphate Fertilizer
  68. 1847: Nitroglycerine
  69. 1848: Chirality
  70. 1852: Fluorescence
  71. 1854: Separatory Funnel
  72. 1856: Perkin’s Mauve
  73. 1856: Mirror Silvering
  74. 1859: Flame Spectroscopy
  75. 1860: Cannizzaro at Karlsruhe
  76. 1860: Oxidation States
  77. 1861: Erlenmeyer Flask
  78. 1861: Structural Formula
  79. 1864: Solvay Process
  80. 1865: Benzene and Aromaticity
  81. 1868: Helium
  82. 1869: The Periodic Table
  83. 1874: Tetrahedral Carbon Atoms
  84. 1876: Gibbs Free Energy
  85. 1877: Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution
  86. 1877: Friedel-Crafts Reaction
  87. 1878: Indigo Synthesis
  88. 1879: Soxhlet Extractor
  89. 1881: Fougère Royale
  90. 1883: Claus Process
  91. 1883: Liquid Nitrogen
  92. 1884: Fischer and Sugars
  93. 1885: Le Châtelier’s Principle
  94. 1886: Isolation of Fluorine
  95. 1886: Aluminum
  96. 1887: Cyanide Gold Extraction
  97. 1888: Liquid Crystals
  98. 1891: Thermal Cracking
  99. 1892: Chlor-Alkali Process
  100. 1892: Acetylene
  101. 1893: Thermite
  102. 1893: Borosilicate Glass
  103. 1893: Coordination Compounds
  104. 1894: The Mole
  105. 1894: Asymmetric Induction
  106. 1894: Diazomethane
  107. 1895: Liquid Air
  108. 1896: Greenhouse Effect
  109. 1897: Aspirin
  110. 1897: Zymase Fermentation
  111. 1897: Hydrogenation
  112. 1898: Neon
  113. 1900: Grignard Reaction
  114. 1900: Free Radicals
  115. 1900: Silicones
  116. 1901: Chromatography
  117. 1902: Polonium and Radium
  118. 1905: Infrared Spectroscopy
  119. 1907: BakeliteÂŽ
  120. 1907: Spider Silk
  121. 1909: pH and Indicators
  122. 1909: Haber-Bosch Process
  123. 1909: Salvarsan
  124. 1912: X-Ray Crystallography
  125. 1912: Maillard Reaction
  126. 1912: Stainless Steel
  127. 1912: Boranes and the Vacuum-Line Technique
  128. 1912: Dipole Moments
  129. 1913: Mass Spectrometry
  130. 1913: Isotopes
  131. 1915: Chemical Warfare
  132. 1917: Surface Chemistry
  133. 1918: Radithor
  134. 1920: Dean-Stark Trap
  135. 1920: Hydrogen Bonding
  136. 1921: Tetraethyl Lead
  137. 1923: Acids and Bases
  138. 1923: Radioactive Tracers
  139. 1925: Fischer-Tropsch Process
  140. 1928: Diels-Alder Reaction
  141. 1928: Reppe Chemistry
  142. 1930: Chlorofluorocarbons
  143. 1931: Sigma and Pi Bonding
  144. 1931: Deuterium
  145. 1932: Carbonic Anhydrase
  146. 1932: Vitamin C
  147. 1932: Sulfanilamide
  148. 1933: Polyethylene
  149. 1934: Superoxide
  150. 1934: The Fume Hood
  151. 1935: Transition State Theory
  152. 1935: Nylon
  153. 1936: Nerve Gas
  154. 1936: Technetium
  155. 1937: Cellular Respiration
  156. 1937: Elixir Sulfanilamide
  157. 1937: Reaction Mechanisms
  158. 1938: Catalytic Cracking
  159. 1938: TeflonÂŽ
  160. 1939: The Last Element in Nature
  161. 1939: The Nature of the Chemical Bond
  162. 1939: DDT
  163. 1940: Gaseous Diffusion
  164. 1942: Steroid Chemistry
  165. 1942: Cyanoacrylates
  166. 1943: LSD
  167. 1943: Streptomycin
  168. 1943: Bari Raid
  169. 1944: Birch Reduction
  170. 1944: Magnetic Stirring
  171. 1945: Penicillin
  172. 1945: Glove Boxes
  173. 1947: Antifolates
  174. 1947: Kinetic Isotope Effects
  175. 1947: Photosynthesis
  176. 1948: Donora Death Fog
  177. 1949: Catalytic Reforming
  178. 1949: Molecular Disease
  179. 1949: Nonclassical Ion Controversy
  180. 1950: Conformational Analysis
  181. 1950: Cortisone
  182. 1950: Rotary Evaporator
  183. 1951: Sanger Sequencing
  184. 1951: The Pill
  185. 1951: Alpha-Helix and Beta-Sheet
  186. 1951: Ferrocene
  187. 1951: Transuranic Elements
  188. 1952: Gas Chromatography
  189. 1952: Miller-Urey Experiment
  190. 1952: Zone Refining
  191. 1952: Thallium Poisoning
  192. 1953: DNA’s Structure
  193. 1953: Synthetic Diamond
  194. 1955: Electrophoresis
  195. 1956: The Hottest Flame
  196. 1957: Luciferin
  197. 1958: DNA Replication
  198. 1960: Thalidomide
  199. 1960: Resolution and Chiral Chromatography
  200. 1961: NMR
  201. 1962: Green Fluorescent Protein
  202. 1962: Noble Gas Compounds
  203. 1962: Isoamyl Acetate and Esters
  204. 1963: Ziegler-Natta Catalysis
  205. 1963: Merrifield Synthesis
  206. 1963: Dipolar Cycloadditions
  207. 1964: KevlarÂŽ
  208. 1965: Protein Crystallography
  209. 1965: Cisplatin
  210. 1965: Lead Contamination
  211. 1965: Methane Hydrate
  212. 1965: Woodward-Hoffman Rules
  213. 1966: Polywater
  214. 1967: HPLC
  215. 1968: BZ Reaction
  216. 1969: Murchison Meteorite
  217. 1969: Gore-TexÂŽ
  218. 1970: Carbon Dioxide Scrubbing
  219. 1970: Computational Chemistry
  220. 1970: Glyphosate
  221. 1971: Reverse-Phase Chromatography
  222. 1972: Rapamycin
  223. 1973: B12: Synthesis
  224. 1974: CFCs and the Ozone Layer
  225. 1975: Enzyme Stereochemistry
  226. 1976: PET Imaging
  227. 1977: Nozaki Coupling
  228. 1979: Tholin
  229. 1980: Iridium Impact Hypothesis
  230. 1982: Unnatural Products
  231. 1982: MPTP
  232. 1983: Polymerase Chain Reaction
  233. 1984: Electrospray LC/MS
  234. 1984: AZT and Antiretrovirals
  235. 1984: Quasicrystals
  236. 1984: Bhopal Disaster
  237. 1985: Fullerenes
  238. 1985: MALDI
  239. 1988: Modern Drug Discovery
  240. 1988: PepconÂŽ: Explosion
  241. 1989: TaxolÂŽ
  242. 1991: Carbon Nanotubes
  243. 1994: Palytoxin
  244. 1997: Coordination Frameworks
  245. 1998: Recrystallization and Polymorphs
  246. 2001: Click Triazoles
  247. 2004: Graphene
  248. 2005: Shikimic Acid Shortage
  249. 2005: Olefin Metathesis
  250. 2006: Flow Chemistry
  251. 2006: Isotopic Distribution
  252. 2009: Acetonitrile
  253. 2010: Engineered Enzymes
  254. 2010: Metal-Catalyzed Couplings
  255. 2013: Single-Molecule Images
  256. 2025: Hydrogen Storage
  257. 2030: Artificial Photosynthesis
  258. Notes and Further Reading
  259. Image Credits