Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Lasers to Mass Spectrometry (Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology)

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Lasers to Mass Spectrometry (Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology)
Wiley-Interscience | ISBN: 0471526843 | 1995-06-23 | DJVU | 1128 pages | 5 Mb

Maybe it's time for the 5th edition? This 4th edition is now ten years old. Still immensely comprehensive and useful, mind you. The roughly thousand articles therein scan a huge variety of subfields.

But material science has marched on. One huge change has been the recent economical fabrication of blue and green lasers, pioneered by a Japanese researcher. From a product standpoint, this enables a huge market in next generation DVDs, that use shorter wavelengths to read the DVD. Hence we get DVDs with higher capacity. And you can probably think of other uses too.

The above was only one example of a significant event in the field that occurred after the 4th edition. A newer edition might be welcomed by many.

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