Materials Handbook

Properties and uses of 15,000 materials--at your fingertips Only one resource lets you instantly check the properties and uses of more than 15,000 industrial materials and substances--including plastics, metals and alloys, rubbers, chemicals, woods, plants and plant extracts, textiles, finishes, foodstuffs, animal products and more. It's Materials Handbook, Fourteenth Edition, by George S. Brady, Henry R. Clauser and John Vaccari. This completely revised industry classic includes thousands of new technologies and products as well as extensive updates on existing materials to keep you current. You get concise descriptions of a material's origin, composition and applications--plus fingertip access to such essential details as: Density; Ductility; Hardness; Solubility; Specific heat; Toxicity; Melting point; Cost versus performance; Conductivity; Resistance to heat and corrosives; Principal alloys and component percentages; Magnetism; Tensile strength and elongation; And much more.

Known simply as ``Brady's''--the only comprehensive, one-volume encyclopedia of materials is now revised! Since 1929, this unique tool has saved professionals' time by providing a one-stop source of comprehensive information on virtually every material and substance used in industry and engineering. The Fourteenth Edition is thoroughly updated to provide full information on a multitude of new materials and substances. It gives you: A-to-Z organization for easy access; coverage of more than 13,000 materials; details on chemicals, metals, minerals, fuels, plastics, textiles, finishes, woods, pharmaceuticals, elastomers, ceramics, coatings, composites, industrial substances, foodstuffs, and natural plant and animal substances; entries on new materials, including recyclate plastics, fullerness, hard-surfaced polymers, dendrimers, transflective materials, rapid prototyping materials, silicone nitride, supercritical fluids, bulk molding compounds, conversion coatings, folic acid, replacements for chloro-fluoracarbons, and thousands more; properties and characteristics of materials, including composition, production methods, uses, and commercial desgination or trade names; a thorough index for finding just the material you need.