| Edition |
13th ed. |
| Physical description |
1 volume (various paging) : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 2000. |
| Contents |
Monographs 1 -- International Patent Country Codes 7 -- Company Register 8 -- Code Letters Used by Companies for Experimental Substances 18 -- International Non-proprietary Names for Radicals and Groups Proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) 22 -- United States Adopted Names (USAN) Council Contractions for Radicals and Adducts 23 -- Indicators 24 -- Amino Acid Abbreviations and pKa Values 28 -- Chemical Terms Translator 26 -- Common Heterocyclic Ring Systems 29 -- Thermometric Equivalents 28 -- International System of Units (SI) 30 -- Numerical Prefixes Commonly Used in Forming Chemical Names 31 -- Alchemical Symbols Used in Biology and Botany 31 -- Prescription Notation 31 -- Isotonic Solutions 32 -- Radioactive Isotopes Used in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy 43 -- Latin Terms 50 -- Greek Alphabet 52 -- Russian Alphabet 52 -- Roman Numerals 52 -- Organic Name Reactions 1 -- Atomic weights. |
| Summary |
"The Merck Index, 13th Edition is a one-volume encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals that contains more than 10,000 monographs. Each monograph in this authoritative reference source is a concise description of a single substance or a small group of closely related compounds. |
| Other author |
Budavari, Susan.
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| Subject |
Chemicals -- Encyclopedias.
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Drugs -- Encyclopedias.
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Biologicals -- Encyclopedias.
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| ISBN |
0911910131 |
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