Featuring easy-to-read and -understand chronologies, biographies, glossary entries, and charts, measurements, and formulas, students, teachers, and general readers will consider these books primary one-stop resources for quick answers to frequently asked science questions. Among the topics covered are: alkaline Earth metals, bromides, dehydration, helium, the law of multiple proportions, molecules, potassium nitrate. Biographies include: Archimedes, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, Marie Curie, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Louis Pasteur. Tables, charts, and diagrams include: periodic table, elements by group, metals and alloys, chemical reaction types, hydrocarbons, polymers.