title: The Facts on File Chemistry Handbook
author: The Diagram Group
description: This useful resource for high-school and undergraduate students provides basic reference material such as glossaries of terms, brief biographies, and chronologies. In addition to updating information, the revised edition adds <i>A-Z</i> lists of key advances, lists of Nobel Prize winners, and listings of important associations and Web sites as well as new diagrams and charts. <i>Mary Ellen Quinn</i><br><i>Copyright &#169; American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
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  The Silent Isle
  
  
  [INTRODUCTION](The%20Silent%20Isle_split_001.html#filepos10121)
  
  
  [THE SILENT ISLE](The%20Silent%20Isle_split_002.html#filepos15874)
  
  
    
    
  [I](The%20Silent%20Isle_split_002.html#filepos15969)  
    
  [II](The%20Silent%20Isle_split_002.html#filepos38436)  
    
  [III](The%20Silent%20Isle_split_002.html#filepos59765)  
    
  [IV](The%20Silent%20Isle_split_002.html#filepos68690)  
    
  [V](The%20Silent%20Isle_split_002.html#filepos81321)  
    
  [VI](The%20Silent%20Isle_split_002.html#filepos95613)  
    
  [VII](The%20Silent%20Isle_split_002.html#filepos103287)  
    
  [VIII](The%20Silent%20Isle_split_002.html#filepos108790)  
    
  [IX](The%20Silent%20Isle_split_002.html#filepos117732)  
    
  [X](The%20Silent%20Isle_split_002.html#filepos122984)  
    
  [XI](The%20Silent%20Isle_split_002.html#filepos127885)  
    
  [XII](The%20Silent%20Isle_split_002.html#filepos138314)  
    
  [XIII](The%20Silent%20Isle_split_002.html#filepos144815)  
    
  [XIV](The%20Silent%2